US EditionBolivia’s Czar Anti-Drug Ensures “There Are International Posters” and Confirmed Return of the Dea to the Country · Global Voices
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The Drug Control Administration (DEA) will again operate in Bolivia after being expelled in 2008, along with the US embassy, by the government of Evo Morales. This is one of the first decisions of the new president, Rodrigo Paz, announced by the minister of government (Interior), Marco Antonio Oviedo. “We will count on the collaboration of several international agencies, among them, obviously the DEA. Because drug trafficking and terrorism are n…
“For us, it is essential to re-integrate into a global fight against drug trafficking and not just a struggle by Bolivia,” said the new Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances in Bolivia, Ernesto Justiniano.
The official said that the country has become a center of territorial dispute between organized crime mafias. He said that the Drug Control Administration (DEA) will resume operations in the country
The Government of Bolivia has officially recognized the operation of international drug cartels within its territory, admitting that the technological and financial capacity of these criminal organizations exceeds the current resources of the local security forces. Ernesto Justiniano, Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances, formalized this position by declaring that drug trafficking represents a transnational threat that does …
Listen to this news: The new Vice Minister of Controlled Substances, Ernesto Justiniano Urenda, has introduced a significant change in Bolivia's anti-narcotics policy. He has expressed his intention to collaborate with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), as well as with the police forces of neighboring countries, to combat organized crime. Justiniano, considered the new "drug czar" of Rodrigo Paz Pereira's government, aims to end the…
Vice Minister Ernesto Justiniano said that drug trafficking became a serious threat to the country, with the presence of criminal organizations with economic resources.
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