El Diario reports: In Potosí Mesa denounces “bullying” of the MAS CARLOS MESA, CITIZEN COMMUNITY CANDIDATE WAS THE LAST DAYS IN POTOSÍ. Carlos Mesa denounced yesterday that a group of clash of militants of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) committed provocations, in the style of bullying, against followers of the Citizen Community (CC) in the…
Month: August 2019
Official optimism and social pessimism
Editorial from El Diario, pictures from the internet: In Bolivia’s current political landscape – on the eve of a questioned presidential election, with a candidate vetoed by the Constitution, by the referendum of February 21, 2016 and the population that opposes the candidacy that tries to eternalize in power- there are thorny aspects, worthy of…
evo and the MAS denigrating people with the “mitimae”
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, the definition of mitimae is provided here: Economy of words The mitimaes of MAS Like the Incario monarchs, the Evo Morales party has sent thousands of Bolivian citizens away from their places of birth to invade lands of other native peoples and spread the philosophy of the “process of…
Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production
Cat Rainsford writes for InSight Crime: Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in the Andean nation. The clashes broke out at the beginning of August between two sectors of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers…
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Seeks An Unprecedented Fourth Term
Story by The Real News Network, picture at the end from the internet: August 13, 2019 The race for Bolivia’s presidency has begun and Evo Morales, has a good chance of winning, if voters forgive him for the term limits controversy. Linda Farthing discusses the situation in Bolivia Story Transcript GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real…
The slow agony of Bolivian natural gas
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, graph from the internet: Memories of the present Slow agony of gas It is sad to attend a funeral when some of the relatives are partying. Some cultures usually do the party, but after the burial. Before the death nobody does parties. What would the dying say. And that…
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