InSight Crime

Tensions Rise in Bolivia’s Chapare as Government Escalates Anti-Drug Operations

Authorities arrest 13 drug traffickers after an ambush of Bolivian officers Officials from Bolivia’s interim government have stepped up drug trafficking operations over the last six months, but a ...
Yahoo

Bolivia's Evo Morales tells AP he'll press on with a hunger strike until his rival accepts dialogue

LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales said Sunday that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival ...
StoptheDrugWar

Chronicle on the Scene Feature: In the Bolivian Chapare, Evo Morales' "Coca, Si; Cocaine No" Policy Brings Peace, If Not Prosperity

For more than two decades beginning in the early 1980s, various Bolivian governments working at the behest of the United States government embarked on a policy of forced eradication of coca crops in ...
CounterPunch

Breaking Barriers: The Political Empowerment of Bolivia’s Indigenous Women

Remigia Ferrel Vallejos, a Bolivian union executive from Chimoré, in the coca-grower Chapare region, isn’t nostalgic for the old days. “Before there was a lot of fatalism. Many times, in meetings I ...
StoptheDrugWar

Latin America: Bolivia's Chapare Coca Growers Tell USAID to Get Lost, Say They Will Seek Funding from Venezuela

Coca grower union leaders in Bolivia's Chapare region said Wednesday they will suspend development projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and instead look to ...
SFGate

Bolivia shifts tactics in its war on cocaine / President focuses on eradicating means of making drug, and not on coca farming

2006-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Puerto Villarroel, Bolivia-- As Bolivian soldiers torch a pit filled with chemicals and coca leaves used to make cocaine, a fireball shoots toward a jungle canopy. The ...
Labroots

Bolivian Health Care Workers Sickened in Outbreak of Chapare Virus

Five people in Bolivia are known to have been infected with the Chapare virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever. Some infected individuals went on to pass that virus to healthcare workers, and some of ...
Gizmodo

An Emerging Ebola-Like Virus in Bolivia Can Spread Between Humans, Scientists Find

Scientists are urging caution over a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to person during a small outbreak in Bolivia last year. The disease, caused by the ...
Mongabay

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Bolivia’s current configuration and its final area were consolidated after the Chaco War and after the country ceded Acre to Brazil and its coastal provinces to Chile. Since then, the need to occupy ...
Business Insider

Scientists discovered a deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola that can spread person-to-person in Bolivia

A small but deadly outbreak in Bolivia yielded new information about a mysterious virus discovered in 2004. The virus, named Chapare virus after the region where it was first observed, causes a ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Bolivia’s Evo Morales tells AP he’ll press on with a hunger strike until his rival accepts dialogue

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s ...