Raul Peñaranda writes for NPR News: Raúl Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist, former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and author of a book on former President Evo Morales’ efforts to control the media in Bolivia. Peñaranda is the editor of the news site Brújula Digital. He was the most important Bolivian leader of the…
Category: Social Unrest
The secret of Chapare – El secreto del Chapare
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, coca/cocaine photos from the Chapare/internet: The secret of Chapare Some secret has the Chapare to stand firm despite the blockade, the last blockade, of the coca growers who defend the fugitive leader. The coca growers themselves closed the entry and exit exits of their region, in a kind of…
Sowers of Violence – Sembradores de la violencia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete, cartoon at the bottom from El Potosi: Sowers of Violence For years Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera sowed a hate speech in the country, went to encourage racism to use it in an instrumental way to get to power and stay in it. They used victimization as a…
Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste [BT: great piece, accurate reading]
Ryan C. Berg reports for National Review, photo at the end from the internet: Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the…
How an Unknown Female Senator Came to Replace the Bolivian Strongman Evo Morales
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Cesar Del Castillo for The New York Times. Pictures at the bottom summarize our ordeal to get rid of autocrat Morales: Inside the scramble to fill the power vacuum and name a leader to guide the country out of political chaos. LA PAZ, Bolivia — A day after the downfall of Bolivia’s longest-serving president,…
Narcs deciding violent acts against Bolivian people
From a golden exile, imparting instructions to a wanted fugitive narc since 2016
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