Juan Jose Toro, Pagina Siete: It was a coup If a coup d’état is the takeover of the government of a country with the aid of violence, was that the resignation of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada? No. Nobody put a gun to Goni’s head to make him resign or was he pushed out of the…
Category: Social Unrest
Chau liderazgo – evo – Bye leadership
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Symbolic blue chair Symbolic is the color, blue, of the chair that the head of the Movement for Socialism received yesterday on his head, during an extended session of that party, in the Chapare, where its national and departmental leaders tried to define the candidacies for the governors of the nine departments…
Evo Morales silletazo provokes criticism and memes in Bolivia
By Desk, Inspired Traveler [I included pics, and inserted them along this article as they appeared in social media]: La Paz, 15 Dec (EFE) .- The controversy was served in Bolivia following the silletazo against former President Evo Morales at a meeting of his party, with reactions ranging from criticism, concern and threats of expulsion…
Engañosos – masistas – Misleading
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Don’t be silly It turns out, from everything we hear and read, that Bolivians do not now know what a coup is. Experts in the field until recently, we tried to confuse young people of what it is like to overthrow a president through a coup. It happens that the masistas…
Se acabó – It’s over
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: End of the oil companies The reign of oil has lasted 161 years until now but it goes out like a candle, just like the reign of mineral coal, which has lasted until now for 260 years and goes out like an ember. According to Antonio Escohotado, a Spanish researcher, in…
CIDH – Vergüenza/Shame – IACHR
Veronica Ormachea, Pagina Siete: Casimira Lema revictimized A year after journalist Casimira Lema had her house burned and everything they could robbed, she was re-victimized in a public hearing. She – who was barely allowed to speak – asked for justice to be done, but the assistants harassed her shouting: “Coup, liar, murderer” and for…
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