Pagina Siete: They assured that they will respond to all the judicial processes that are made to the people of Santa Cruz or Bolivians. After the Prosecutor’s Office issued the arrest warrant against the former Minister of the Environment, María Elva Pinckert, the Committee for Santa Cruz ruled against this measure, which they called “unjustified”…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland
Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…
Blows to history – Golpes a la historia
Hernan Terrazas, Los Tiempos: The problem with not having written our history well is that anyone comes, reinvents it and the great confusion sets in. At the beginning of the 90s of the last century, for example, someone came up with the brilliant idea of affirming that the coca leaf grown in the Chapare was…
evo’s corrupt intention with lithium – La corrupta intención de evo con el litio
Roger Cortez, Los Tiempos: Barrage of counterfeits, whirlpool of violence The Bolivian president, in a new and explainable confusion, attributed, in Mexico, to the previous government the breaking of the contract for the exploitation of lithium from the Uyuni salt flat. The one who made the decision –very against his wishes certainly– was Juan Evo…
Whims – Caprichos
Editorial, El Diario: Exigencies, strikes and bulk extremes All labor and business organizations in the country, as well as most of the institutions, have vast experiences on what the extremes identified as strikes, demonstrations, protests, walkouts, blockades and others bring to the country; on the other hand, they know what the “last consequences” mean, a…
Unfinished coups – Golpes inconclusos
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Memories of the present Something is wrong in Bolivia. We had the scepter of being the country with the most coups, but the last two have been made by apprentices. We could have written the Larousse on the coups d’état, but we have flunked. If it is true that in November…
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