Bolivia Flight
Bolivia
AVIATION SAFETY OVERSIGHT: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed the Government of Bolivia as being in compliance with ICAO international aviation safety standards for oversight of Bolivia’s air carrier operations. For more information, travelers may visit the FAA’s Internet web site at www.faa.gov/avr/iasa/index.cfm. There are limited flights within Bolivia and to neighboring countries. Flight delays and cancellations are common. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Commercial travel from the U.S. to La Paz is by air. American Airlines offers a daily flight between La Paz and Miami. Travel time is about 6 hours. There are, on occasion, other U.S. carrier flights available. Travelers should ensure that travel to post complies with the Fly America Act. For current information, contact the General Services Office before making any travel plans. ... With a population of 408,000, Cochabamba is the third-largest city in Bolivia. The flight from La Paz to Cochabamba in itself makes a trip to this charming city worthwhile. The plane flies alongside Mount Illimani and other snow-covered peaks. After 15 minutes of flight, you can see the tropical lowlands in the distance. ... [Read More]
Bolivia
The Government continued to address the problem of delay of justice by implementing the 1994 constitutional reforms to streamline the judicial system and by taking measures to correct other deficiencies as they come to light. In May provisions of the new Code of Criminal Procedures replaced the release provisions of the Personal Recognizance Law, promulgated in 1996, which were never utilized effectively. Most prisoners still await either trial or sentencing, but under the new Code of Criminal Procedures the courts are beginning to provide release on bail for some prisoners. Judges still have the authority to order preventive detention for suspects under arrest deemed to be a flight risk or for obstruction of justice. If a suspect is not detained, a judge still can order significant restrictions on a suspect's travel. ... [Read More]
Bolivia
Between January 12 and 28, at least five civilians were killed when major violence erupted in the Chapare region as illegal coca growers ("cocaleros") blocked the major Cochabamba/Santa Cruz highway (see Section 2.b.). On January 14, near Sinahota, Chapare, coca grower Willy Hinojosa, 22, was shot to death. The Ninth Division claimed that troops, in response to an attack by protesters on their lead vehicle, first fired live ammunition into the air and then at the ground, as required by the division's crowd control protocol. Officers speculated that a richochet might have struck Hinojosa. Coca growers offered a different version of events surrounding the death of Willy Hinojosa. They said he had been arrested in Sinahota and was shot while trying to escape. The Public Ministry was investigating the incident at year's end. On January 15, coca growers complained to human rights groups that Felix Colque died as a resul ... [Read More]
Bolivia
Section 1. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom From:a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life There were no reports of politically motivated killings committed by government agents; however, security forces allegedly killed five protesters during violent demonstrations. Most deaths and injuries occurred in or near the Chapare where cocaleros often violently opposed the security forces' attempts to enforce the law and reduce the illegal coca crop that is used mainly to manufacture cocaine. Some human rights groups blamed the forced eradication for the violence, and cocaleros demanded its suspension, often by blocking a strategic highway used to transport legal crops to market. On January 15, violent protests erupted in the town of Sacaba, Cochabamba, as police responded to cocalero protests against a decree banning the transport a ... [Read More]
Report on European Contributions to Counternarcotics Efforts, Alternative Development and Judicial Reform in the Andean Region
Humanitarian need in Peru is a result of socio-economic factors, limited natural resources and the flight from the land. This country in the Andes mountains also suffers from the after effects of the conflict with guerrilla groups and the domestic unrest that led to the flight of President Fujimori in 2001. In addition, ... [Read More]
South America
The GOV decision in 1999 to monitor and track on its own suspected drug smuggling aircraft using Venezuelan airspace on their way to or from drug deliveries in the Caribbean and to prohibit U.S. aircraft from carrying out such operations over Venezuela, led to many flights successfully evading detection. While the Venezuelan military continued to cooperate closely with U.S. forces with regard to information on suspect aircraft and launched their own aircraft, aerial interdiction efforts were largely unsuccessful. An apparent change in drug trafficking air operations, however, led to a major reduction in such flights through Venezuelan airspace in the second half of the year. ... [Read More]
E) South America
Law Enforcement Efforts. Chilean authorities have had success in interdicting narcotics transiting Chile. As increased attention is focused on the Andean source countries, narcotics traffickers are transporting their product through Chile in an effort to take advantage of Chile’s clean reputation. This strategy is based upon the presumption that flights and vessels originating in Chile are much less likely to be subject to close scrutiny by authorities in the United States or Europe than are flights and vessels Colombia, Peru or Bolivia. ... [Read More]
E) South America
The DIRAN, with USG support, continued to implement the Airmobile Interdiction Project, which provides elite units (“Junglas”) for drug interdiction missions. Within this project, the Bogotá Airmobile Company is at full strength, and the Santa Marta and Tulua Airmobile Companies are at 66 percent strength and should reach full operational capability by June 2003. The Airmobile Interdiction Companies conducted over 40 operations against narcotics targets, resulting in the destruction of 61 HCL laboratories and associated narcotics trafficking infrastructure. Two INL-funded intelligence/surveillance aircraft supported the majority of DIRAN operations. Nearly forty percent of its flight hours were flown in support of the Colombian Military’s counternarcotics (CN) operations. ... [Read More]
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