Editorial, El Diario: Ambitious seek to destroy the country All the extreme actions that the people have endured a few weeks ago have come to deeply distress and worry them. Those who are determined to destroy the country seem that they will never measure the consequences of their actions that, almost certainly, could lead to…
Category: Bolivia
Legado pésimo – evo – Dreadful legacy
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: A harmful inheritance The Bartolinas have asked the cocalero Morales not to get involved in the electoral campaign, the peasant leader of Oruro Johnny Rocha, (of the MAS), asks that Morales be expelled from the party, the president of deputies, Sergio Choque, says that the cocalero would have to defend himself…
Bolivia judge confirms ex-president Morales cannot run for senate
AFP for France 24: La Paz (AFP) A judge in Bolivia on Monday ruled that former president Evo Morales is not eligible to run for a senate seat in October’s elections, the government announced. Justice Minister Alvaro Coimbra wrote on Twitter, “Urgent Evo Morales Disqualified,” after Judge Alfredo Jaimes Terrazas confirmed the former president was…
Rosmery Mamani
Drawing the Dispossessed: Bolivian Artist Rosmery Mamani Ventura A young boy sleeping on the street, an old woman begging for money-these are the people who draw Bolivian artist Rosmery Mamani Ventura’s eye. At just 27 she is a rising star whose intense connection with people living on the margins of society leads to extraordinarily rich…
evo/MAS – RIP
Fátima López, Página Siete: Epitaphs and premonitions Essays of epitaphs and apocalyptic announcements were the keynote of the messages of unity and disarmament that the MAS proposed to Bolivians, it did so head-on, as if it were about planting daisies on the road. Clad in a blue guayabera, under the blazing Pando sun, JRQ seemed…
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