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Bilivan consumers have felt the impact of contaminated gasoline. More than 10,000 vehicle owners, including long-distance transport operators and private drivers, have reported severe engine damage. File Photo by Luis Gandarilas/EPA
April 1 (UPI) --Bolivia's government, led by President Rodrigo Paz, said it has uncovered an international criminal network responsible for sabotaging and adulterating imported fuel shipments that entered the country over the past five months.
Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo told a news conference Tuesday that at least 150 million liters of gasoline and diesel were tampered with, citing an official investigation that identified a scheme involving fuel theft and contamination with water and oil in Chilean territory.
Authorities said the operation targeted tanker trucks transporting fuel to Bolivia, particularly in northern Chilean cities. In those locations, part of the fuel was allegedly siphoned off and replaced with a mixture of water and oil, according to local broadcaster Unitel.
President Paz said the adulteration began around October.
Investigators believe the network operated mainly in Chile, with additional links and operational hubs in Paraguay and Argentina. The direct economic loss to the Bolivian state is estimated at $150 million, excluding indirect costs linked to transport disruptions.
Consumers also have felt the impact. More than 10,000 vehicle owners, including long-distance transport operators and private drivers, have reported severe engine damage.
"We are facing an attack against the assets of Bolivian families," Paz said, adding that the government will pursue legal mechanisms to compensate those affected, according to local newspaper El Deber.
Bolivia's landlocked status makes transporting fuel from Chile critical to its energy supply chain. The country relies on Chilean ports such as Arica, Iquique and Mejillones to receive international shipments of crude oil and refined products.
After a virtual meeting Tuesday, Paz and Chilean President José Antonio Kast agreed on a joint roadmap to dismantle the transnational organized crime network behind the fuel adulteration, according to Bolivia's state-run broadcaster BTV.
As an immediate response, Bolivia announced tighter controls at facilities operated by state energy company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos, known as YPFB, and the National Hydrocarbons Agency. Authorities will implement mandatory laboratory testing at production sites and border checkpoints.
Civil society groups have called for accountability as the investigation continues, urging authorities to prosecute those responsible abroad and to address potential internal failures that allowed the sabotage to go undetected for months.
The crisis comes as Bolivia faces a severe fuel supply shortage. After a structural decline in domestic hydrocarbon production, which fell about 44% between 2014 and 2024, the country shifted from a net exporter to a heavily import-dependent market. Bolivia now imports about 90% of the diesel and 50% of the gasoline it consumes.
The situation has worsened since 2023 due to a shortage of foreign currency, particularly U.S. dollars, complicating payments to international suppliers and contributing to intermittent shortages and partial disruptions in transport and productive sectors.
Ozzie tells us that we need to be able to
re-articulate the truths of God in order for them to be of any value to those
to whom we minister. I also believe that we need to articulate those truths in our own words in order to really
understand them.
Sharaf Sharafeldin, spokesperson for the Muslim Association of Canada, stated, predictably, that Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Review and Analysis Division “targeted Muslim charities through processes marked by bias and discrimination.” Yet here is a screenshot of what the Muslim Association of Canada had up on its own website about its origin, with emphasis on the middle paragraph:
Lawyers representing the government and one of the country’s largest Muslim charities concluded arguments before the Ontario Superior Court last week in the charity’s attempt to halt an audit it says is rooted in “systemic bias” and Islamophobia.
The complicity of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is no surprise, given its history. Read more about the TDSB HERE.
The Muslim Association of Canada, who is currently being investigated by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for its affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, is opening a school in Scarborough on TDSB property.
Until the federal government designates the Muslim Brotherhood and all affiliated Canadian Islamist organizations as terrorist entities, they will continue to use TDSB schools to indoctrinate…
The Republic Somaliland says her father committed war crimes:
Omar is trying to portray inquiries into her alleged immigration fraud as a racist, white supremacist, right-wing MAGA attempt to discredit her. The Republic of Somaliland, however, is making that claim more difficult for Omar to sustain.
Ilhan Omar by Tony Webster, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Ten years ago, on March 22, 2016, three Muslim terrorists blew themselves up in Brussels, two at the airport and one at the main railroad station, killing 32 and wounding 300. It’s a cautionary tale, about which you can find more here:
‘All I could do was wait and pray that God would come and save me.’
This is how Karen Northshield, one of the survivors of the Brussels airport attack, spoke to Politico:
“All I could do was wait and pray that God would come and save me.”
It has already been ten years, so in case you forgot, on March 22, 2016, ISIS terrorists carried out coordinated suicide bombings at Brussels Airport in Zaventem and Maelbeek metro station, killing 32 people and injuring over 300.
32 dead and 300 injured.
The terrorists’ names: Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, Khalid el-Bakraoui, and Najim Laachraoui.
As the West once again finds itself staring into the abyss-this time in open war against the Islamic Republic of Iran-it is necessary to look back without indulgence. Because what happened then was the poisoned fruit of a civilization that had decided to fund its own executioners, to fight for their release, and ultimately to celebrate them as martyrs.
Israel had warned Belgian officials weeks before the attack about inadequate security measures at Brussels Zaventem airport. The warning came from Israeli officials tasked with evaluating security standards at airports operating flights to Tel Aviv. The Israelis had identified “significant deficiencies” at the airport, which just days later became the site of two deadly ISIS explosions.
A year earlier, Israel had helped London stop a Hezbollah terrorist plot.
But European neutrality-that dogmatic belief in the intrinsic goodness of others-prevailed over the instinct for survival. Only six months later, the Belgians would travel to Israel to take security lessons.
Too late for the 32 murdered and 300 wounded in two attacks in Brussels, the Belgians went to Israel for lessons in security. It is Israel that has been providing information to the Europeans about terrorists on their soil — the same Europeans who have been distancing themselves publicly from the Jewish state, while accepting its aid sub rosa.
These days, Israel’s Mossad is in London helping the British with counterterrorism. A few nights ago, four Jewish Hatzola ambulances were destroyed in London.
One of the airport terrorists, Khalid el Bakraoui, when released from prison in early 2014, two years before the airport attack, received €28,000 in various social welfare benefits from the Belgian system. With that money, Khalid and his brother Ibrahim bought backpacks, nails, and detonators.
Think of that: Khaled el Bakroui was not only released from prison prematurely, but in the next two years he was provided with 28,000 euros in benefits from the Belgian government, money that allowed him to buy what he and his brother needed for their suicide bombings — nails, detonators, backpacks. Should a convicted criminal have received any benefits from the state?
Then there was their cousin, Oussama Atar, the mastermind of the attack.
Raised in Brussels, Atar was arrested in Iraq by Americans in 2005. The Belgian government and NGOs immediately began pressuring for his release, invoking “Islamophobia,” and some NGOs spread the false claim that Atar had cancer (in reality, he was in excellent health). Among those advocating for him was liberal politician Louis Michel-former Belgian minister, deputy prime minister, foreign minister, and European Commissioner for Development, as well as father of Charles Michel, President of the European Council from 2019 to 2024.
The Belgian government pushed for the terrorist’s release despite warnings from American and French intelligence services, which considered Atar extremely dangerous….
Why did high officials in the Belgian government join those leftist NGOs in pressing for the Americans to release Oussama Atar? Was it really “Islamophobia” that caused him to be arrested in the first place as some of those officials apparently claimed? Or did the Americans find him aiding and abetting attacks on their forces in Iraq? And what Belgian official was so intent on obtaining his freedom that he falsely claimed that Atar had cancer? What sickness is it in the Western world that has so many officials in one country pressing for the release of Muslims held by another? And why were the warnings from both American and French intelligence services that Atar was “extremely dangerous” ignored? Why have none of those Belgian officials responsible for getting Oussama Atar freed, so that he could then mastermind the terrorist attack in March 2016, been publicly shamed for their scandalous intervention?
Atar was released, returned to Belgium, and masterminded the killing of 32 “infidels.”
In Copenhagen, two artists lost no time in planning to stage the deeds of the brothers Ibrahim and Khaled el Bakraoui, who detonated their explosive belts at the Brussels airport check-in. Among the terrorist accessories on display was a replica of Ibrahim el Bakraoui’s leather glove, used to conceal the bomb detonator. The exhibition was inspired by Tehran’s “Museum of Martyrs,” and the suicide bombers were presented alongside historical figures who died for their cause, such as Joan of Arc and Socrates.
These Danish “artists” celebrating mass murderers should have had their ghastly exhibit shut down, and they themselves charged with making light of, or even encouraging, terrorism. Instead, they proudly showed, among other items, a replica of the leather glove in which one of the terrorists had hidden a detonator. The three suicide bombers were presented as “martyrs,” alongside others who died not as murderers but as real martyrs to their cause, including Joan of Arc and Socrates. Such a display is one more bit of evidence of a sickness in the soul of the West, the same sickness that infects those idiots screaming on campuses about “death to the IDF” and “globalize the Intifada” and “stop the genocide.”
The Brussels terrorism attack in 2016 is a cautionary tale of how the democracies of the West, the victims of Muslim terrorists, have taken a long time to wake up to the dangers of Islam. The Belgian officials who helped to spring Muslim killers from American detention in Iraq, who ignored warnings from American and French intelligence officials about Oussama Atar, the man who became the mastermind of that Brussels attack, whom those officials described as “extremely dangerous,” the Belgian government that supplied the terrorists with funds that provided them with the wherewithal to carry out their murderous attacks — even now, ten years after the suicide bombings in Brussels, everyone in Belgium officialdom who so carelessly aided and abetted the terrorists who killed 32 innocents, should be held up for public condemnation and contempt.
Nigeria: Muslims murder 23 people and wound 108 in three jihad suicide bombings
The bombers were likely happy to ensure their place in paradise: “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)
Boko Haram by AK Rockefeller, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
23 killed, 108 wounded in suspected suicide bombings in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Three suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday. It was one of the deadliest attacks targeting the city of Maiduguri in recent history.
Residents and emergency services earlier told The Associated Press that the explosions were reported on Monday night in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, including at a major market and the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
The wounded “sustained varying degrees of injuries,” Borno police spokesperson Nahum Kenneth Daso said in a statement, which blamed the attacks on suspected suicide bombers.
President Bola Tinubu, who left the country on Tuesday for a two-day state visit to the United Kingdom, expressed his condolences for the victims and directed security chiefs to “take charge of the situation” in Maiduguri.
“The Monday attacks were desperate acts of the evil-minded terrorist groups,” Tinubu said. “Our gallant military and civilian task forces will curtail and put them down.”
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion quickly fell on the Boko Haram jihadi group, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce their radical interpretation of Shariah, or Islamic law.
Boko Haram has since become stronger, with thousands of fighters and different factions, including the Islamic State West Africa Province, which is backed by the Islamic State group….
