Luis Eduardo Siles, Los Tiempos: The dead by the MAS When these ridiculous fools tell you about the dead of Sacaba and Senkata, that it is their responsibility, remind them: 2006: The confrontation between salaried miners and cooperative members in Huanuni (Oruro) left 12 dead and 60 wounded. 2007: The repression in La Calancha, in…
Category: Social Unrest
Are we so irrelevant as a country, or does the international community tremble before masismo? | ¿Somos tan irrelevantes como país, o la comunidad internacional tiembla ante el masismo?
Veronica Ormachea , Página Siete: Añez condemned being innocent We Bolivians live in a country that makes no sense since we have a failed state. Where the lie is State policy. Former president Jeanine Añez was sentenced to 10 years in prison without having committed a crime. A scoundrel. She has been a victim of…
In Bolivia, women earn 13% less in managerial positions | En Bolivia las mujeres ganan un 13% menos en cargos de jefatura
Juan Carlos Salinas, El Deber: The difference in income in favor of men is a constant, according to the Cedla Economic violence can be interpreted as the material dispossession of resources, income and assets; and implies the non-exercise of the right to access or dispose of them. Economic violence is also manifested in the sphere…
“You have to beat up the camba” | “Hay que sentarle la mano a la camba”
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: That Jeanine Añez Chávez, from Beni, white, as well as nice, had assumed command of the nation, in November 2019, occupying the place that Evo Morales cowardly abandoned, must have caused immense pain among the mestizo and indigenous masismo that could not bear this insult. That a camba took possession of…
Bolivia: UN Rapporteur says Áñez’s conviction tinted with political meddling
MercoPress: Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego García-Sayán has said he saw politics had meddled in the judicial ruling whereby former Bolivian interim President Janine Àñez was sentenced to ten years in jail for crimes against the Constitution. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers said he saw a “political intervention”…
Chapare: Priorities | Prioridades
The first banana export happened under the Alternative Development program, a USAID project. Such export only happened since there were two trucks that came from Arica, Chile with tires and went back empty. The project gave high quality bananas, planting and harvesting techniques, credit, as well as marketing assistance to the banana unions that started…
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