By Esther Mamani, AFP, Barron’s: A violent attack by would-be robbers steered Bolivian Lidia Mayta towards the martial art of taekwondo. Three years later, she helps train other Indigenous women to defend themselves against rampant gender-based violence in the South American country. Mayta told AFP she would have died if neighbors had not come out…
Category: Crime and Violence
“Bolivia has been kidnapped by a dictatorship” | “Bolivia ha sido secuestrada por una dictadura”
World Nation News Desk: Camacho continues that “Bolivia has been kidnapped by a dictatorship” The governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, stated that the latest actions taken by the Government of Luis Arce are typical of a dictatorship. “In recent days we have seen how the president Luis Arce and his Government continued to act for apart…
From democracy towards authoritarianism | De la democracia hacia el autoritarismo.
Carlos Valverde, El Deber: Totalitarians! That’s it. The government of Luis Alberto Arce Catacora has decided to cross the threshold or border from democracy towards authoritarianism. The brutality of the intercultural mob at the doors of the Assembly, to prevent opposition parliamentarians and media who were arriving at the building from entering to broadcast from…
Evo Morales and the unfinished task of national construction | Evo Morales y la tarea inconclusa de construcción nacional
Pedro Portugal, Brujula Digital: Evo Morales lashes out against everyone. Now against his closest subordinates. In statements to Radio Kawsachun Coca, he evicts his former vice president, Álvaro García Linera: He is a traitor and a swindler because he allegedly never obtained the bachelor’s degree he exhibited in the early years of the MAS government….
Miner w/o authorization dares to sue park rangers for doing their work? Only happens under the populist masista corrupt gov | ¿Minero sin autorización se atreve a demandar a guardaparques por hacer su trabajo? Solo ocurre bajo el corrupto gobierno populista masista
El Diario: Cooperative miner suing park rangers was not authorized to carry out mining activities The Mining Administrative Jurisdictional Authority (AJAM) revealed that Ramiro Cuevas, the miner who is suing two park rangers from the Madidi protected area, is not the holder of mining rights and, therefore, could not carry out this type of activity….
The 21st of February changed Bolivia’s history | El 21-F cambió la historia de Bolivia
Editorial, El Deber: Eight years have passed, but the date is engraved in the imprint of Bolivians. That day marked a before and an after. That day, 2,682,517 people said No with their vote to Evo Morales’ reelection because they rejected the modification of the Political Constitution of the State that prohibits a third consecutive…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 