After the 66 days of struggle and the end of year approaching very fast, the indigenous people and stakeholders of the TIPNIS right to remain as is, are still struggling with two important issues: This cartoon is from El Diario, November 29, 2011. The brutal police aggression to the TIPNIS marchers goes still unpunished. Human…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian negotiation 101 = blockades
What is the intention to live year around with strikes and blockades? this is not the times of getting out of a dictatorship; nor is it the attempts to grow politically like current president and his political party did before assuming power six years ago. Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos excerpts follow: Blockades, a collective…
Relentless coca… cocaine production???
These two cartoons portray the way coca crop and its “processed products” have an impact on our lives… This is from El Dia (11/24/11), and it also relates to the TIPNIS struggle for survival: the defeated (no road through TIPNIS) powerful coca-grower/intercultural person (new “marketing” sociological name to brand some of the supporters of this…
Blackouts are in order: Santa Cruz suffers the most!
El Deber reports: The main reason for today’s incoming cuts, from 14: 00, is due to non operation of the transmission line(high voltage) between Carrasco (Cochabamba) and Arboleda in Buenavista, operated by the company ISA-Bolivia. This line will join maintenance, according to the National Committee on energy emission (CNDC). There will also be unavailability of some generating…
TIPNIS triggers a winning cartoon!
La Razon’s cartoon won the first national award: A drawing of Al – Azar (Alejandro Salazar), published on July 10 in the section Gallery of Abnormalities of the supplement: Animal Politician, won the first national award in the caricature category of the National Press Association. The image is referred to the conflict unleashed by the…
Public safety: what is been done for Santa Cruz city?
This cartoon is from El Diario (11/28/11), a La Paz journal which also reflects what is happening regarding public safety in Santa Cruz and around our nation. El Mundo reports on social peace and public safety, for beautiful Santa Cruz city, summary follows (for full Spanish article, click link below; after the link, there is my…
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