Alejandra Serrate Jáuregui is an activist member of Resistencia Femenina and writes in Pagina Siete, the photo is from the internet. 1. Bolivia is the only country in the history of humanity in which, having twice voted for the constitutional presidential limitation, it was still violated. Both times the vote was at the request of…
Month: December 2018
Vulnerability to political rights worsened in 2018
El Diario reports: Apdhb The marches and the mobilization in the streets are the first option to protest demanding respect for the Constitution and the vote. The officialdom assured that the human rights are respected and are guaranteed in the country and discredited the observation of the Apdhb The Permanent Assembly of Human Rights (Apdhb)…
In Bolivia, Morales’s Indigenous Base Backtracks on Support
Nicholas Casey for The New York Times: CARMEN DEL EMERO, Bolivia — In this remote indigenous village in Bolivia, the rule has been the same for generations: Leaders can be re-elected only once. After that, they must hand power to someone else. So it came as a shock to Nelo Yarari, the leader of Carmen…
Angry Bolivians demonstrate against Evo’s candidacy
MercoPress reports: Demonstrators marched in most Bolivian big cities Thursday to complain against the Electoral High Court (TSE)’s decision to allow incumbent President Evo Morales and Vice-president Álvaro García Linera to seek re-election despite the country’s Constitution and what the people voted for in the February 21, 2016 referendum. “This is Bolivia, not Venezuela,” thousands…
For Bolivian bank BancoSol, unsecured individual loan is its key differentiator
K R Srivats for The Hindu Business Line: But emphasis is high in India on some form of collateral, say MFI experts NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 3 BancoSol, a Bolivian commercial bank that focusses on microfinance, has been successful in serving the underserved in Bolivia by assessing their businesses rather than adopting a collateralised approach to…
Violence erupts in Bolivia amid protests against Morales’ bid
AFP UK reports, to watch the video, please use the link below!: Thousands of people take part in protest marches across Bolivia amid a general strike called by opponents of President Evo Morales’ bid for a fourth term. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/violence-erupts-bolivia-amid-protests-044232610.html Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Let’s not forget: Bolivian people voted and won against the re-re-re-re nomination of…
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