El Diario: Cívicos Cruceños affirm that Arce insulted the Bolivians The president of the Committee for Santa Cruz, Rómulo Calvo, described as a lack of respect to Santa Cruz and Bolivia, the speech that President Luis Arce delivered on Friday night, during the opening ceremony of Expocruz 2021. The first authority of the country broke…
Category: Social Unrest
Respeto a CPE, DDHH y democracia – Respect for the Constitution, human rights and democracy
Angelica Siles, El Diario: Platforms are organized to demand respect for the CPE, human rights and democracy The Political Constitution of the State establishes in Article 1 that “Bolivia is constituted in a Social Unitary State of Plurinational Community Law, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural, decentralized and with autonomies. Bolivia is founded on plurality and…
Se agota – Gas – Runs out
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The official and governmental effort to rewrite history and impose the lie of the “coup” to erase the electoral fraud of 2019 contrasts with the discretion of the actions that should be taken to face the economic situation of the country, and mainly of the State. While the judicial and street persecutions…
Los sinuosos – The sinuous
Manfredo Kempff, Los Tiempos: Carlos Valverde tiene razón cuando dice —y escribe— que el MAS, en su afán de terminar con la vida de Jeanine Áñez, está errando el camino y la va a convertir en una heroína americana. Para muchos de los bolivianos la expresidente ya es una heroína, hoy mismo; por su coraje…
Seis meses después de la detención, no hay fecha de juicio para la expresidente boliviana – Six months after arrest, no trial date for Bolivian ex-president
AFP, France24: Six months after being arrested on coup charges by a Bolivian government allied to her political rival Evo Morales, ex-president Jeanine Anez is still awaiting a trial date. The 54-year-old, who claims she is the victim of “political persecution,” attempted suicide in a jail in La Paz last month while suffering from “severe…
Hectáreas quemadas – 2021 – Burned hectares
ANF, Los Tiempos: FAN quantifies the area burned by fires in 8 months at 1.5 million hectares The Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) quantified in more than 1.5 million hectares the areas burned by the fires in the nine regions of the country, from January to August of this year. To perform the quantification, Sentinel-2…
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