This attitude has become evident for years, every time there were problems, demonstrations and even casualties this president was away from country. In this cartoon, El Diario, January 15, 2012. The vice-president greets current president: “..how lucky you are “evito” [little Evo] you just got here from abroad and other trips are waiting for you…!”…
Category: Social Unrest
Freedom of the press in Bolivia under fire!!
This is from El Diario, January 14, 2012; it shows how the media is been surrounded by the government and their “social movement” groups… there is the press being “captured.” freedom of expression is under fire while the “authority” is just watching complacently. After the “show” that current government set up in a meeting of their…
Bolivian presidential peculiarities…
The newspapers El Dia and La Razon portrayed some presidential peculiarities in their editions of January 13, 2012 In El Dia’s we see him on top of his loyal party members receiving reprimands of their actions… or joust taking punishment because he just felt like doing so. On his back you can see the word…
Bolivian corruption increases to alarming rates!!
This cartoon portrays how corruption is affecting our daily lives, in this case, the so-called ministry for anti-corruption and transparency is overwhelmed by corruption at all levels and stages of public office. So, the question is: where did it go the meritocracy? what happened to the thousands of dollars invested and financed by the World…
Yapacani, El Chore, Amboro Park, coca and three dead people. January 2012
El Deber and ANF report about the violence in the Yapacani municipality, El Chore reserve being invaded and the coca crop which is worse than an epidemic. Three people died as a result of municipality conflicts between different groups who belong to the current political party in power, and police intervention: The leader of the…
TIPNIS fight for their rights continues, January 12, 2012
El Diario issued ANF’s report on an emergency meeting called by CIDOB, regarding the relentless intention to have a road cut the TIPNIS, today’s cartoon from El Diario also portrays the open support to those ‘questioned’ protesters (many have coca plantations and have absolutely nothing to do with the ownership of a national park that…
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