Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber: Two babies are born where there was repression It rains and the news has spread in the three huts of Altamira: a woman has come with birth pangs and may give birth at anytime. It rains and Carolina Moye is lying on a double bed, the unique space of…
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Peruvian incongruence regarding Bolivian heavy load transport services
It is hard to understand what is going on in the minds of the Peruvian government regarding their sudden reaction against Bolivian trucks in their territory, Pagina Siete reports: Around 280 trucks, most of them with soy cargo, are detained in Desaguadero at risk of being seized in Peruvian territory due to the Customs INTA…
Jindal – El Mutun: A chronicle of a death foretold?!
For those of you not following earlier posts on this subject, will realize that this venture was doomed from the beginning: lack of enforcing contractual terms from day one on both sides; not-so-clear contract awarding to Jindal; and a highly visible political issue between Santa Cruz and central government. Walter Vasquez reports for La Razon:…
Bolivian police under its most severe crisis of all times…
“Law & Order” in current Bolivia is just a TV show you can watch over cable TV, just that… no Law, no Order… unfortunately. Criminality rates on the rise, community enforcement bordering lynching and police force spending more time controlling/preventing/attacking street riots, blockades are part of the existing “Order”. The following cartoons show this month’s…
Potosi, Mallku Khota: blunt anarchy and/or government failure to deal with crisis?!
Miguel Lazcano reports for La Razon: The Governor’s Office of the Potosí Department yesterday requested the Executive Body [central government] to analyze the possibility of militarizing the area surrounding the Mallku Khota mine, whose concession is held by the Canadian company South American Silver. The order was made yesterday by Governor Felix Gonzales Bernal, who…
TIPNIS protest-walk ordeal update, May 21, 2012
Pablo Ortiz writes for El Deber: Weak, small, vulnerable, isolated from the help of cities by the bad condition of the roads, but firm in its intention to reach La Paz and fulfil the mandate to give their message to the world: the TIPNIS is not split apart. Thus it is the indigenous March after 23…
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