Bolivia Currency
Bolivia (06/05)
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Country Program: Bolivia
Total potential national capacity to produce cocaine (assuming all coca, including licit coca, were to be used) fell from 215 metric tons in 1996 to 60 metric tons as of June 1, 2001. Bolivia has embarked upon a two-year effort to expand the size of the Special Drug Police Force and its specialized operational units. This will include not only an increase in manpower, but upgrading of its physical infrastructure, new bases throughout the country and the establishment of a national communications grid. In 2001, Bolivian forces seized nearly 70 metric tons of illicit coca leaf, 4.46 metric tons of cocaine HCL and base, over two hundred of metric tons of precursor chemicals, 284 vehicles, nearly $1 million in currency, and made 1,674 arrests during counternarcotics operations. ... [Read More]
Current Travel Warnings
Travel Warnings are issued when the State Department recommends that Americans avoid a certain country. The countries listed below are currently on that list. In addition to this list, the State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with information on such matters as the health conditions, crime, unusual currency or entry requirements, any areas of instability, and the location of the nearest U.S. embassy orconsulate in the subject country. Jamaica and the Cayman Islands 07/14/2005 ... [Read More]
USIA, Economic Perspectives, March 1998 -- SubregionalTrading Groups
Seven CARICOM members form the smaller Organization of EasternCaribbean States, which has a common central bank and a commoncurrency, the only such arrangement in the Western Hemisphere. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues the Eastern CaribbeanDollar, which is the currency of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica,Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St.Vincent and the Grenadines, and of the British-dependentterritory of Anguilla. ... The General Treaty's original intent was to create a free tradearea among the Central American countries while establishing acommon tariff with nonmember countries. A Permanent Secretaryfor the treaty was established to provide institutional supportfor the integration process. There was also an agreement, signedin 1964, aimed at eventually harmonizing monetary policies andadopting a common currency. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
A local bank provides accommodation exchange at the Chancery and AID Annex during certain hours on weekdays. Foreign currency exchange houses (casa de cambio) are also readily accessible and will accept personal checks, travelers checks, and U.S. currency from Mission personnel in exchange for Bolivianos at the parallel rate. Automatic Teller Machines are also available in the larger Bolivian cities. ... Currency, Banking, and Weights and MeasuresLast Updated: 6/30/2005 2:05 PM ... [Read More]
Docs 147-180
Bill Gaud and Orville Freeman request your approval to negotiate a $6.8 million P.L. 480 sales agreement with Bolivia for wheat/wheat flour and tobacco./2/ Repayment will be in dollars over twenty years with 5 percent down. There will be no currency use payment under the Purcell amendment since no additional currency is needed at this time. ... The local currency proceeds from this agreement will be earmarked on a standby basis for budget support in CY 1969 should the need arise. Thus, the P.L. 480 agreement should eliminate the need for additional Supporting Assistance funds. If the need for budget support does not arise, the proceeds will be used in the agricultural sector. ... [Read More]
E) South America
There were no successful cases in 2001 specifically involving the financing of drug operations, although in the second half of the year the GEMA seized smuggled U.S. currency totaling over $1.5 million that is believed to have been related to drug sales. ... For calendar year 2001, the GOB seized 65.95 metric tons of coca leaf, 4.46 metric tons of cocaine (HCL and base), 5.2 metric tons of marijuana, 165,000 liters (liquid), and 46.8 metric tons (dry) of precursor chemicals, 284 vehicles, and $834,910 in currency; destroyed 878 cocaine labs; and made 1,674 arrests. GOB efforts focused on intercepting illicit drugs and chemicals as well as on detecting and destroying organizations that bring chemicals into Bolivia from Chile and Argentina, and those that transfer cocaine from Bolivia into Brazil and Argentina. ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY LAUNDERINGMONEY LAUNDERINGOVERVIEWIn 1992, the major trends affecting money laundering policy were: (1) further sophistication of money laundering practices; (2) greater investment of drug and other illicit proceeds into established businesses, both to conceal money movements and to capitalize on illicit profits; (3) the internationalization of money laundering networks whose operations involve an ever larger number of countries and territories, regardless of their importance as financial centers or as drug producing or transit countries; and (4) the intensified involvement of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations in Europe, Asia and the Western Hemisphere who comingle proceeds from many crimes to confound investigators, and are now acting as brokers for funds unrelated to their own trafficking activities. These trends have made it more difficult to differentiate between drug-related money laundering and other forms of illegal money m ... [Read More]
Renewal of the Andean Trade Preferences Act
Upon taking office in 1997, President Hugo Banzer announced a strategy, called the Dignity Plan, to free Bolivia from the international cocaine trade by the end of his administration in 2002. As we approach that deadline, the Banzer Administration can take pride in having accomplished the monumental task of eradicating almost all illicit coca production in Bolivia. President Banzer recently announced that he will step down as President due to failing health and that Vice President Jorge Quiroga would take over the presidency. Having met with him last November, I know that the Vice President has played an instrumental role in helping the Government of Bolivia recognize the critical role that investment, both foreign and domestic, must play in developing the Bolivian economy and lifting the country's people out of poverty. The country's investment law and free convertibility of the currency are examples of important mechanisms put in place through the Vice President's efforts that have e ... [Read More]
Tips for Travelers to Central & South America
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