Karina Martin reports for PanAm Post: Bolivia: Morales’s Party Will Launch Reelection Bid against Majority Decision in 2016 Referendum The Vice President of Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism Party, Gerardo Garcia, said that President Evo Morales will run for reelection, “no matter what” in 2019. That means Morales is willing to bypass the constitution and the will of…
Category: Social Unrest
‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded.
Jesse Dougherty writes for The Washington Post: ‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded. The red brake lights on the cars ahead all lit up, the rush-hour traffic slowly rolled to a halt and Nicolle Uria, tightly gripping a Gatorade water bottle in one hand…
Meet the government who turned into the laughing stock of the world: Bolivia appoints new head at scandal-hit bank
Allan Brown reports for BNAmericas: Bolivia appoints new head at scandal-hit bank A former director of Bolivia’s central bank and of development bank SAM has taken the reins of state-controlled lender Banco Unión amid an Bolivia: Banks urged to strengthen anti-embezzlement safeguards: Bolivia’s association of private banks Asoban has called on the country’s financial institutions…
ANALYSIS-Violence, “old boys’ clubs” put women off life in politics but at what cost?
Belinda Goldsmith writes for Reuters, excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: ANALYSIS-Violence, “old boys’ clubs” put women off life in politics but at what cost? * Women hold less than a quarter of parliamentary seats globally * Wide recognition that women MPs put other issues in spotlight * Quotas have pushed up numbers but still lagging global…
Bolivian government jeopardizes entrepreneurial activity, it remains stalled mainly due to its high incompetence!
El Diario reports: Entrepreneurs are frustrated after a year and a half of dialogue The president of the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB), Ronald Nostas, revealed last week the “fatigue” in several productive sectors due to the lack of agreements with the Government, which after some three thousand hours of dialogue and work…
Bolivian democracy under serious peril!
This cartoon from El Diario (10/20/2017) reflects the seriousness of the danger to lose our democracy. Who would have even thought that this peril would come from the coca grower caudillo who became president of Bolivia, eleven years ago. Now, we can argue that all the turmoil that started back in 2003 until he became…
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