Publicado por Transnational Institute Escrito por Amira Armenta Junio 2010 Cómo se podrían reducir los impactos ambientales que genera la producción de la sustancia más chic de la lista de famosos estupefacientes. Mientras haya demanda para la cocaína, los países productores seguirán cultivando la materia prima del alcaloide. Y mientras el cultivo de la coca [...]
Published by The Huffington Post Written by Fernando Sulichin, Producer of ‘South of the Border’ June 8, 2010 Last night we arrived in Cochabamba, a city in the Andes in central Bolivia that has played a pivotal role in South America’s battle for economic independence. As we document in South of the Border, it was [...]
Published by TNI/WOLA Drug Law Reform Project 06 May 2010 Today, despite a world-wide drug control treaty system and decades of massive investments to attack drug production and curtail supplies and consumption, illicit drug markets and criminal networks are flourishing, threatening public health and safety. The failure of the “war on drugs” is prompting renewed [...]
Publicado por VTV Marzo 20 2010 Dossier desde La Paz: Entrevista al Vice Presidente de Bolivia Ver el video en este enlace
Publicado por VTV Marzo 18 2010 Dossier desde La Paz: Entrevista al Presidente Evo Morales Ver el video en este enlace
by Nathaniel Loewentheil Published in The Huffington Post March 3, 2010 Exploring Bolivia’s politics and resources There aren’t many places in the world where one can buy Nintendo Wiis, dried llama fetuses and bananas by the ton, but La Cancha is one of them. A series of interconnecting outdoor markets, stands, tiendas and shopping malls [...]
Published by Center for Strategic and International Studies Mar 3, 2009 Peter DeShazo, Director of Americas Program at CSIS, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Hearing on U.S.-Bolivia Relations: Looking Ahead March 3, 2009 Statement [...]
Published by The Democracy Center March 03, 2010 The beginning of March in Bolivia. Some things just come around as predictable as the seasons. The hills of Cochabamba have turned a lush green from the late summer rains. I can walk safely down the street again without fear of the water balloons of Carnival coming [...]
Publicado por Los Tiempos Marzo 2, 2010 El gobierno admitió que los cultivos de coca aumentaron en un 7,6% pero rechazó el informe de la administración estadounidense que habla de un mayor incremento de coca y cocaína y de una ineficiente acción gubernamental para controlarlas. El viceministro encargado de la lucha antidroga, Felipe Cáceres, dijo [...]
Publicado por Transnational Institute Por Ricardo Soberon Radio Nederland Wereldomroep Entrevistador: José Zepeda Feb 22 2010 Se tardará para que la Comunidad Internacional hable de la despenalización de la droga en términos concertados y coherentes. JZ.- ¿Podemos decir, sin riesgo de exagerar, que las cosas han ido mal respecto de la lucha en contra del [...]
Published by Transnational Institute Feb 24 2010 The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) annual report released today, which criticizes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for moving to decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption, clearly oversteps the INCB’s mandate and constitutes unwarranted intrusions into these countries’ sovereign decision-making. The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board [...]
Written by The Andean Information Network February 23, 2010 Bolivian president Evo Morales’s frequent, blunt criticisms of the United States Government often provoke irritation and complaints in Washington about negative “rhetoric” impeding bilateral relations. Unfortunate comments from some U.S. officials complicate relations It’s important to note that although U.S. officials have generally made diplomatic statements [...]
Published by Upside Down World Written by Ximena Soruco Sologuren, Translated by: Marcelo Virkel 15 January 2010 In January 2009 Bolivians adopted a New State Political Constitution, in which converged many histories and memories that coexisted during different cycles: the crisis of political parties, representative democracy and the neoconservative economic model caused pleas for the [...]
Published by Monthly Review Written by James McEnteer January 2010 Taking a show about the war on drugs to Bolivia seemed like risky business but was far more sensible than recent U.S.-Bolivian diplomacy. John Malpede has never worried much about transgressing the line between brave and crazy. Otherwise, he would not have started a theater [...]
El Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia (PIEB) nació en 1994 y se desarrolla en el marco institucional de la Fundación PIEB. Es un Proyecto de carácter científico, cultural y social, creado con el propósito de contribuir al desarrollo de Bolivia a través de la promoción de la investigación científica sobre temas relevantes y estratégicos [...]
Published by Transnational Institute The project was created with the realization that after decades of the same drug policy, the efforts have not curved the expanding drug markets, and instead have led to human rights violations, a crisis in the judicial and penitentiary systems, the consolidation of organized crime, and the marginalization of drug users [...]
Published by Transnational Intistute The coca-cocaine issue has gained momentum by the ascending of a peasant leader to the presidency in Bolivia, who announced making a case for the de-scheduling of the coca leaf from it’s current classification as a dangerous narcotic drug in the international drug control conventions. Time has come to clarify longstanding [...]
Published by WOLA September 16, 2009 The Obama administration’s “decertification” of Bolivia’s drug control efforts, announced last night, is unwarranted and risks unnecessarily complicating efforts underway to improve U.S.-Bolivian relations, according to the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Andean Information Network (AIN). This is the second year in a row that the [...]
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