By Manfredo Kempff Suárez, El Diario: “Pacted democracy” The masterminds of Indo-Spanish masismo (indigenous and mestizo figures alongside Spanish populists) gathered in their offices, filled with the scent of coca leaves, sweat, and garlic, concocting ideas to draft constitutions and laws that would dismantle Bolivia’s fragile democracy without it being apparent. They invented a host…
Category: Crime and Violence
Periodistas en Bolivia enfrentan ataques y agresiones verbales | Journalists in Bolivia face attacks, verbal assaults
4 de Diciembre, 2024 5:29 PM WASHINGTON — Temiendo por su vida, Josué Chube Choque recuerda haber gritado que era periodista mientras manifestantes lo atacaban el mes pasado en Bolivia. El reportero trabajaba para la estación de televisión Unitel, cubriendo las protestas generalizadas de los partidarios del expresidente de Bolivia, quienes bloqueaban carreteras en todo…
Bolivia se desmorona | Bolivia Unravels
Por The Statesman: Bolivia, antes celebrada como un éxito económico de Sudamérica, es ahora un claro ejemplo de cómo la excesiva dependencia de los recursos naturales y la mala gestión pueden llevar a una nación a la ruina. SNS | Nueva Delhi | 4 de diciembre de 2024, 8:06 am Bolivia, antes celebrada como un…
Anapo says that the properties invaded in Santa Cruz exceed 40 | Anapo dice que los predios avasallados en Santa Cruz superan los 40
By Vision 360: Insecurity Recently, the Santa Rita and San Fernando properties in Guarayos were invaded when people with weapons and hooded men entered the properties. Property invaded. Photo: Unitel (referential) More than 40 properties have been invaded in the department of Santa Cruz, reported this Monday Jaime Hernández, general manager of the Association of…
The end of the so-called “model” | El fin del mal llamado “modelo”
By German Huanca, Publico.bo: Bolivia is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades. The insistence on maintaining the MAS’s model, wrongly referred to as the “economic, social, community, and productive model,” established in 2006, has led the country to a crossroads: either persist with an exhausted extractivist economic system with significant state intervention,…
Police Evicted by 200 Land Invaders | Policía fue desalojada por 200 avasalladores
By El Deber: On Friday, a contingent of uniformed officers was sent but could not reverse the illegal occupation of the 6,000-hectare Santa Rita property. A group of land invaders seized the Santa Rita property yesterday, located in the Guarayos province of Santa Cruz. They expelled a police contingent that had arrived to secure the…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 