Robert Brockmann writes in Pagina Siete: El Alto and the Nobel Peace Prize In my university time I helped pay for my studies selling auto parts. My clients were in the Ceja of El Alto and in San Pedro in La Paz. Selling things was never my thing, but I liked doing it in El…
Month: March 2020
Ximena Galarza: 2020 International Women of Courage Award Recipient
U. S. Embassy in Bolivia reports, excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo to Honor Awardees on March 4, 2020 withSpecial Remarks by First Lady of the United States Melania Trump On Wednesday, March 4, Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo hosted the Annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards at the…
Bolivia after the ouster of Evo Morales, a leftist strongman
From The Economist: The interim president seeks an electoral mandate. Will that destabilise the country? “The bolivian people won’t accept seeing those who have the privilege of directing our collective destiny using their power and the resources of state institutions…to change the rules of democracy and benefit themselves.” So wrote Samuel Doria Medina, a businessman and…
They were more than 21 days of resistance – Fueron más de 21 días de resistencia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: They were more than 21 days of resistance The majority of Bolivians say they were 21 days of resistance, of popular consultation, of blockades, of stoppages, of demonstrations, of little ropes; many put on the hero costume for their actions in those three weeks. All that is well, it…
Arrest warrant for Evo Morales Ayma – Orden de aprehensión para Evo
El Diario reports: For sedition and financing of terrorism Seizure order for Evo Morales Ayma The complaints are based on the presentation of an audio, on November 20, in which the voice of the ex-president (asylum in Mexico) is allegedly heard in contact with a MAS leader, coordinating and ordering the encirclement of capital cities…
Monkey Cage: The bad work – Un mal trabajo
Editorial from Pagina Siete: The bad work of Monkey Cage The idea that the Evo Morales government fell due to a coup d’etat and that there was no fraud in the elections last October 20 is gaining strength internationally. In general, in the struggle of narratives, intellectuals and the media are more inclined towards those…
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