Multiple homes in La Paz, Bolivia, were destroyed after landslides caused them to collapse on Feb. 23 and 24. The landslides were caused by heavy rain, which loosened up the soil.
Category: Social Unrest
Boliviano: aprende de una vez!
Nosotros los bolivianos siempre queriendo recortar tiempos, cosas … esa pesadilla llamada “viveza criolla” … ya va siendo hora que maduremos y asumamos nuestros errores. Resulta fácil pedirle al gobierno todo, y este por demagogia y necesidad de votos, accede una y otra vez… En función de la presión de bloqueos o la conmiseración pública…
Second Morales minister detained in Bolivia
La Paz (AFP) Authorities in Bolivia on Friday detained a former minister in the government of exiled ex-president Evo Morales. Cesar Cocarico, the ex-minister of rural development and lands, was arrested for breaching his duties and influence peddling while in office, police Colonel Ivan Rojas told reporters. It comes a day after Bolivia’s supreme electoral…
Silala: gaffe of the previous Government – Silala: gafe del anterior Gobierno
Editorial from El Diario: Silala: gaffe of the previous Government The revelations that the previous Government recognized that the waters of the Silala spring flow naturally to Chilean territory, as it expresses – as it is said – the Bolivian reply to Chile’s allegations before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, would anticipate…
Dispersion of the vote, danger to democracy – Dispersión del voto, peligro para la democracia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Dispersion of the vote, danger to democracy Why did Evo Morales win the 2005 election with 54% of votes? Partly because the party system collapsed, because the parties that formed alliances to create the agreed democracy were prelude to them in the use of the State, because the MIR,…
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