Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Difficult moment for Bolivians. At times it seems that they have two governments and then they have the feeling that they do not even have one. The coca grower Morales dispatches from the Chapare. There he receives foreign chancellor ministers and the creme de la creme of the Santa Cruz business…
Category: Crime and Violence
The world watches Arce – El mundo mira a Arce
Editorial, Pagina Siete: If President Luis Arce believed that the persecution undertaken by his government against former President Jeanine Añez and her collaborators would not have a cost for his administration, he was wrong. The European Parliament approved by 396 votes in favor, 267 against and 28 abstentions, a very harsh resolution that condemns “the…
Luis Arce: a true leader? – ¿un verdadero líder?
NOT! It is enough to see the waste of the previous 14 years, it is enough to see that evo meets with businessmen in the Chapare, usurping functions and dispensing with the Executive, ignoring Luis. It is enough to verify that he does NOT have economic or health policies, nothing! As president, he is just…
The European Parliament Called For The Release Of Janine Anez In Bolivia: “We Are Watching With Horror A Wave Of Political Persecution”
Aygen Marsh, Amico Hoops: From the file: An extraordinary plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on July 23, 2020 (Reuters / Francois Lenoir) The majority of members of the European Parliament condemned on Thursday the arrest of former Bolivian interim President Janine Anez He asked the Bolivian authorities to release him, his two…
Land Trafficking Fuels Constant Corruption in Bolivia
InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
A deranged masismo – Un masismo desquiciado
Pagina Siete: Militias, that madness The so-called Coordinator for the Defense of Democracy, which responds to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), was launched yesterday with the mad idea of changing the Constitution to create armed militias in the country destined to replace the Armed Forces. If there were not a context of hardening of the…
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