Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience

[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…

MAS gov NOT to be trusted – NO se puede confiar en un gob masista

Noiana Marigo, Kate Apostolova, Lexology: ¿Bolivia vuelve a atacar el arbitraje inversor-Estado? En octubre de este año, Bolivia ratificó la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Transparencia en el Arbitraje Inversionista-Estado basado en el Tratado (la Convención), convirtiéndose en la séptima Parte Contratante. La Convención entró en vigor en octubre de 2017 y hasta…

CIDH – Vergüenza/Shame – IACHR

Veronica Ormachea, Pagina Siete: Casimira Lema revictimized A year after journalist Casimira Lema had her house burned and everything they could robbed, she was re-victimized in a public hearing. She – who was barely allowed to speak – asked for justice to be done, but the assistants harassed her shouting: “Coup, liar, murderer” and for…

NO hubo golpe – There was NO coup

Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The coup d’etat theory When Evo Morales fled and the 14-year-old regime collapsed like a house of cards, the vast majority of citizens were sure that we had achieved an irreversible result, and that based on this, the restitution of the rule of law was proportional to the powerful citizen movement…