This is ANF’s report, published by El Dia: The national Government yesterday delivered the response to the list of demands of the Bolivian workers Union (COB), which highlights the salary increase of 7 and 15 percent to the national minimum wage. The Deputy Minister of coordination with social movements, César Navarro, was who delivered the…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian military role to follow the Constitution or the political ruler of the day?
Bolivian humor has always good sources to show the ridicule and to have some laughs… This is from Los Tiempos, March 27, 2012: The title: Military at the MAS reunion [political party ‘congress’] One says: “Per the constitution, neither the army nor the police can deliberate, or participate in partisan political action!” The other replies:…
Margarita and Huacaya oil fields unveiled, no need for further conflict between Chuquisaca and Tarija
Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber about the connectivity between two oil fields and fortunately there is no need to continue with the conflict between brethren departments: Official. The American firm Gaffney Cline & Associates last night unveiled that a (H1b) reservoir of the Margarita field in Tarija (the largest gas deposit) field has connectivity with…
Bolivian government’s pathetic politics…
Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
TIPNIS has the date and THE place set to start defense of its territory and our national park!
ANF news agency reports and is published in El Deber’s website: The 9th [protest] march will depart seven months after the Government of President Evo Morales restrain the indigenous people who participated in the 8th march, precisely in the town of Chaparina, a few kilometers of Yucumo. [the date is set for April 25, 2012]…
Bolivian government fits the ‘ineptocracy” mold
Andres Oppemheimer has written (for the Miami Herald) the following article and it fits nicely, unfortunately and embarrassedly enough our Bolivian reality: IN MY OPINION Latin Americans complain of “Ineptocracies” BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM A new definition of bad governments is spreading fast on the internet: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) — a system where the least capable…
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