El Día: Active forest fires in Bolivia decrease to nine Disminuyen a nueve los incendios forestales activos en Bolivia The Ministry of Defense, based on information from the National Incident Command, announced that active forest fires in Bolivia were reduced to nine. According to the details of the official report updated until the night of…
Category: Social Unrest
Defensa de los 2/3 en la ALP – Defending the 2/3 in Congress
Los Tiempos: Citizens maintain blockades in rejection of the elections and the elimination of the 2/3 in the ALP Ciudadanos mantienen bloqueos en rechazo a las elecciones y la eliminación de los 2/3 en la ALP Citizen and neighbor groups maintain blockade points in different cities as a measure of protest against the results of…
From Bolivia, Lessons for a Successful Election – Desde Bolivia, lecciones para una elección exitosa
Julie Turkewitz, The New York Times: En el último año, la democracia de Bolivia sufrió cuando los enfrentamientos partidistas llenaron sus calles y creció la desconfianza en el gobierno. Y, sin embargo, logró una elección tranquila y sin oposición. ¿Qué puede enseñar a otras democracias sitiadas? In the last year, Bolivia’s democracy suffered as partisan…
Cierra la Asamblea de los oprobios – Closes, the Assembly of reproaches
The Legislative Assembly that was installed in January 2015 closes its sessions as it developed them over almost six years: attacking democracy. With just a few hours remaining until the end of its legislative term, the MAS decided to take advantage of its two-thirds of the votes to precisely annul the requirement of two-thirds of…
Polls start closing in ‘calm’ Bolivian general election
Valeria Pacheco, Agence-France Press, Yahoo News: Fears that violence could break out proved unfounded as Bolivians voted peacefully on Sunday to elect a new president and Congress. Polling stations started closing at 5:00 (2100 GMT), although some centers remained open for the queues of people already lined up waiting to cast their ballots. Despite a…
Manipulación Descarada – Shameless Manipulation
Editorial, Página Siete: The joking mood of the censorship of ministers One of the biggest distortions that the Bolivian political system has had in recent months is that the MAS had maintained control over two-thirds of the Legislative. As it was not possible, from the constitutional and democratic point of view, to close the Congress,…
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