In 1997, the three energy multinationals American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Paci?corp signed an agreement with the government of Bolivia. The deal involved for these companies to be allocated the carbon offsets generated by keeping trees standing, ‘in return for millions of dollars of investment for the protection of an area of rainforest [...]

The return home was not like Pablo Eche had dreamed.
After 15 months in a recovery clinic, struggling against his addiction in “paco”, a highly addictive drug that put an end to thousands of lives in Argentina, Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta.
His relatives, including his mother, Bilma Acuna, anti-paco activist of the community, gave him the [...]

One of the world’s most profitable drugs, cocaine, handles about $ 50 billion in the second report released Wednesday by the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), connected to the UN (United Nations).

The analysis of the Executive Director of UNODC, Antonio Costa, is that while the indices of purity and number of [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has shown Friday 20, that the area of cultivation of the coca leaf declined by 18 thousand hectares in 2008 in Colombia, for the previous year. But in Bolivia and Peru, there was an increase of 6% and 4.5% respectively.

Between 2007 and 2008, the cultivation of [...]

Nations like China, Russia, and Iran have been making progress in influencing Latin American leaders, altogether producing an anti-US sentiment that was largely spurred by George W. Bush’s foreign policy that saw the US falling out with and drifting away from Latin America. This is a case of the cat being away and the mice [...]

Before the leaders of fifty countries who met in Vienna, Austria for the 52nd Conference of the United Nations Committee on Narcotic Drugs, Bolivian President Evo Morales took out a coca leaf, a plant from which cocaine is derived, and chewed it, demanding its removal from the list of banned substances.
“The coca leaf is not [...]

Government authorities and residents of the city of Santa Cruz in Bolivia engaged in a massive operation to combat the dengue epidemic which has claimed 21 victims thus far. The most virulent outbreak is now being recorded in Santa Cruz where 40,000 people have contracted the disease.
The order was given to all citizens of the [...]

After a week that started off with skiing, moved on to exotic destinations and cooled off with gaming thrills on the couch, it is time to now ponder about the path rather than the destination. Most often, both in life and journey, we are so often bothered about the destination that we actually forget to [...]

More negative news for the United States in South America.
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, decided this Saturday, 1 to suspend “indefinitely” the United States Department of Drugs (DEA) operations in his country after accusing it of conducting “espionage” and “conspiracy” against his government.
Morales announced the decision in the region of Chapare, in the [...]