Daniel Stewart, MSN: Bolivia’s Civic Committee maintains national strike after rejecting the technical table proposed by the government The Bolivian Civic Committee has again rejected the proposal of the Government of Luis Arce to install technical tables to set the date on which the Census will be held, so the strike will remain active in…
Category: Politics
A bewildered and incapable government prevents food from reaching its markets | Un desconcertado e incapaz gobierno impide alimentos lleguen a sus mercados
BBC News Mundo: The challenge of the Santa Cruz region that led the Bolivian government to ban exports of 6 staple foods The Bolivian government has temporarily banned the export of six basic food products, including soybeans, sugar and beef, due to a strike in the agricultural region of Santa Cruz. The export suspension came…
It’s not that way, President Arce – No es por ahí, presidente Arce
Editorial, El Deber: The call made by President Luis Arce to bring together mayors, governors, rectors and all their allied social movements in Cochabamba on Friday the 28th has the appearance of a mockery on the mobilized region, it reveals that his Government feels comfortable with the indefinite strike of Santa Cruz, who has no…
Anti-democratic legacy of masismo | Legado antidemocrático del masismo
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The haulage of public servants Recently, one of the MAS legislators, nothing less than a regional caucus chief, did not even flinch when he was denounced for having asked the Minister of Government for “jobs” by letter -such his self-confidence-, and on the contrary “argued”, very loose of body, that the sine…
Who gave the right to vote to Bolivian women? | ¿Quién dio el derecho al voto a las mujeres bolivianas?
Ivone Juárez, Página Siete: Malú, Ana Rosa, Eduvigez… the suffragettes who inherited the vote to Bolivian women At the beginning of 1920 they burst into debate about the condition of “minor” of women. They considered that the right to vote was the pass to achieve their civil and legal rights. They chose the pacifist struggle…
Deforestation, drug trafficking and land seizure | Deforestación, narcotráfico y toma de tierras
Mauricio Quiroz Terán, El Deber: 83% OF THE AFFECTED AREAS ARE IN SANTA CRUZ Deforestation is accelerating and they see the hand of drug trafficking in the land grab Felcn agents and businessmen affirm that there are “territorial enclaves” in Guarayos and Bajo Paraguá in San Ignacio de Velasco. A report from Fundación Tierra indicates…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 