This cartoon is from El Diario, January 5, 2012. It shows an interview on the current “walk” by those people who want the road to cross over the TIPNIS. People who are no longer advocating the road between Beni and Cochabamba but to cross the TIPNIS! The press asks: “…Mr. Cacique (chief, boss)! tell us,…
Category: Social Unrest
Santa Cruz Governor Ruben Costas under political persecution; one victory but several more charges are likely to continue
From El Deber’s website, report made by C. Delgado y M. Chuquimia: Suspended charges against Rubén Costas The seventh judge of investigation criminal, Ivan Córdova, determined yesterday to rescind the Declaration of rebellion and the arrest warrants against Governor Rubén Costas by the proceedings for contempt, followed by the Prosecutor Marcelo Soza. “Citizen Rubén Costas has…
What will the new Year’s bring to Bolivia?
Apparently not much, and its hesitant to land in La Paz, Bolivia… suggests the El Diario cartoon that appeared January 1, 2012. Given all the pending issues/problems like salary increases, fuel subsidies, smuggling, cocaine trafficking, illegal settlements, lack of public safety, marches, blockades, strikes in general and the TIPNIS; will all of them more likely…
TIPNIS and CIDOB start a trial against current Bolivian president
El deber reports about the TIPNIS ongoing fight to protect their territory and to protect a national park which belongs to all of us; for full Spanish article, please use link below: The Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB) yesterday announced the start of a responsibility trial to President Evo Morales: for violation of…
Bolivian government revised its position with UN’s INCB re: coca
Pagina Siete reports on Bolivian government next actions with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB, JIFE in Spanish). [INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under…
Can some humans learn from earlier mistakes?
This cartoon is from El Diario, December 29, 2011. It shows current Bolivian president trying to swim against the current of blockades that will more likely restart around mid January 2012. It is assumed that humans, unlike other species, learn, adapt, evolve when confronted with reality. This political party in power is either a very slow…
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