The Public Ministry announced today the arrest of former general Rene Sanabria’s son, Víctor Hugo Sanabria Nava. Rene Sanabria, who at the time was an intelligence advisor to Evo Morales, was caught by the Chilean secret police trying to sell over $5 million worth of cocaine. Sara Villaroel, a prosecutor in the Sanabria case announced, [...]

Eleven Bolivians were arrested yesterday in Chile on the suspicion of trafficking black market cars over the border to Bolivia. The group had ten cars and a large truck, none of which had valid passes or registrations. The group was stopped in the small town of Cariquima in northern Chile. The elven are between the [...]

The Minister of Communication, Amanda Dávila, guaranteed on Sunday that the Publishing Tribunal and Publishing Law of 1925 will be maintained despite her governments plans to make a new communications law. “The spirit, the foundation of the Publishing Law is absolutely valid, and we will absolutely respect this,” she said. She then said that since [...]

Three young Chileans were on vacation in Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca when one of them, Sergio Gachón began feeling ill. In the small town hospital they prescribed Gachón penicillin without ascertaining that Gachón had a severe penicillin allergy. Gachón died later that day in his hostel. Gachón’s family said that this was [...]

  Today roughly 400 coca growers including men, women and children from the four towns of La Asunta, Litoral, Río Cajones y Puerto Rico in the Sud Yungasregion of the  La Paz Department have expelled 20 soldiers from a nearby base where they were patrolling for illegal coca. Locals complain of illegal detentions and physical [...]

Yesterday, the defense team for Rubén Costas, the embattled governor of Santa Cruz department, presented a new legal appeal in order for him to evade being convicted for contempt of court. Richard Cardozo, Costas’ lawyer, appeared in front of the Seventh Criminal Court in La Paz in order to present a new appeal, the so-called [...]

Argentine ex-military officer Luis Enrique Baraldini was extradited to Argentina on Christmas day, after authorities detained him in Santa Cruz. He was turned over to Argentine authorities at the border town of Bermejo. Baraldini, 71, was wanted in Argentina for crimes against humanity committed during that country’s dirty war in the 70s and 80s, in [...]

Bolivia former vice-minister of Lands, Alejandro Almaraz, said that the solution to Bolivia’s land ownership problems is to prohibit the sale of land to foreigners. “It seems valid to me to at least consider the legal prohibition of foreigners owning land, just like it is prohibited in Brazil,” said Almaraz. Gonzalo Colque, director of the [...]

Bolivia is among the four countries perceived as the most corrupt in South America, after Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela, according to the 2011 Perception of Corruption Index presented yesterday in Berlin by the German organization Transparency International. Bolivia, which came in 118th out of 183 countries studied, dropped from its position of 110 last year. [...]

Yesterday, students, faculty, and staff of the El Alto Public University marched from El Alto to La Paz to demand more funding. Today, the administrative management of the Bolivian road authority is demanding that rector of the school, Damaso Quispe, and four university leaders pay for damages that occurred during the march.. Forty-five people were [...]