Bolivia continues to change, we went from a Republic to a Pluri-national State. Now, two of the nice Bolivian departments want to shift from a Unitary type of government to a Federal one. This news appeared in http://www.hoybolivia.com: The President of the civic Committee of Tarija, Walter Mogro, announced a meeting with civic of Potosí…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian humor or sad reality?
In Bolivia we use cartoon humor to portray our failures and frustrations, let’s see some: This is from El Diario, March 17, 2012. It shows the increasing levels of crime and certainly those wonderful tourists who choose our country, are almost defenseless. The police section who is responsible for tourism protection has very little resources,…
TIPNIS protest-walk update, as of April 18, 2012
As reported in El Deber’s website: The indigenous leader lamented that a week away from the mobilization, the President Evo Morales along with the Acting Governor of Beni Haisen Rivera, continue giving “gifts” to the villagers that inhabit the Isiboro Sécure National Park; looking after “splitting” the indigenous people and promote the failure of the…
For the last 41 years, a conflict per day
This cartoon appeared in Los Tiempos, April 11, 2012. The first person, portraying someone from current government, saying “blockade…strike…blockade…blockade…” a man says “the government is committed to prevent that marches and blockades continue!” ‘avernoy’ replies “and you think they will succeed, bro?” the dog thinks “doctor Frankenstein trying to stop their creation work” SO let’s…
Bolivian unfortunate public transport reality
In general we can say we have a very poor public transport system, the buses, mini-buses and taxis of all kinds in general are old, used, and are considered junk in the countries of origin, on top of that, most of them come smuggled and sometimes the ‘conversion’ from the wheel to the left causes…
2012 Bolivian salary increase will not go over 7%
Current Bolivian president said that this year’s salary increase will not go over 7%, ANF news agency reports for Los Tiempos: President Evo Morales said yesterday [April 12, 2012] that the increase in wages for this year will not exceed the percentage of inflation registered at the end of the year 2011 – 6.9 per…
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