Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday defended Bolivians’ right to chew coca leaves, the main precursor for cocaine, claiming it as an ancient tradition while insisting that his country is fighting drug trafficking. Holding up a coca leaf to make his point at a United Nations anti-drug meeting in Vienna, Morales, a former coca leaf farmer, said that [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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“There’s no doubt that with the growth of China, we’ve seen a re-commoditization of Latin America,” said Colombia’s Mining Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, an economist and former Director of the Latin America program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. In terms of economic development, Latin America did not take any advantage of the rising prices [...]
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A newly formed Latin American and Caribbean organization has issued statements in support of Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over the British-ruled Falkland Islands and against U.S. sanctions on Cuba at the end of its first two-day summit. However, the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC, declined to engage in stronger anti-Western [...]
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Bolivia and the United States on Monday announced the end of their three-year stalemate, with the signing of a “framework agreement” to re-establish diplomatic relations. Bolivian president Evo Morales in 2008 expelled the US ambassador and DEA agents, accusing them of supporting conspiracies by his conservative opposition. Washington soon reciprocated by inviting the Bolivian ambassador [...]
Most Bolivian voters turned out Sunday for judicial elections that are a major test for the administration of president Evo Morales, in spite of concerns about a potential boycott. Abstentions and null votes had been urged by his conservative opposition, which accuses Morales of attempting to take control of the judiciary via his campaign to [...]
Former Bolivian general Rene Sanabria this week was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a drug trafficking case with possible ties to president Evo Morales. The retired chief of Bolivia’s anti-narcotics unit plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine to the United States. Sanabria and a partner were detained this year in [...]
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In contrast with the ongoing deterioration of relations between Bolivia and the United States, this week the landlocked Andean nation signed six pacts strengthening government and state-run business ties with China. President Evo Morales presided over the signing ceremony one day after launching fresh verbal attacks on capitalism and US “imperialism” at the United Nations [...]
This week the White House has added El Salvador and Belize to its list of drug producing and transit countries for the first time, which now puts all seven Central American nations on the list. The Obama administration also criticized two Latin American countries already on the list, Venezuela and Bolivia, for having “failed [...]
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The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
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