There are two possible sources for road blockades next week: road heavy load transport, nationwide; and Oruro particular issues. La Razon reports on the former: This Thursday, high tonnage vehicles blocked the access to the customs area of El Alto, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro and Tarija, to protest for the “imposition” of a valuation table (see…
Category: Social Unrest
Judicial elections’ official results, finally!
finally! Los Tiempos reports: The final results confirmed that for this judicial elections, the null and blank votes reached 60 percent, compared to 40 percent of the valid votes. [so those pre-selected candidates by current government will take office. Is that going to be legal? yes, legitimate? no] The President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal…
TIPNIS: Government keeps on sending the worst possible message
El Deber website offers the latest speech from current Bolivian president: President told the indigenous people of San Ignacio de Moxos to request their leaders and Assembly [congress] representatives to push for the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, so it can go through the TIPNIS. [as planned] He continued by saying the he saved his responsibility by getting the credit for the…
Power outages continue to happen
Power outages in seven cities across the country continued yesterday due to failures in power generation. The National Load Dispatch (NCDC) instructed to disconnect power from 19:10 to 20:05 affecting Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre, Potosí and Trinidad. Arturo Iporre, president of the CNDC, explained that the reasons for such power cuts were…
TIPNIS: police spouses demand current president be put on trial
This article is from El Deber’s website: Guadalupe Cardenas, representing the wives of low-ranking officers (corporals, sergeants, non-commissioned officers) called for the installation of a trial of responsibilities against current Bolivian state president; the reason? the police repression of the TIPNIS indigenous protest march group. Cardenas said that a trial to current president should be enforced as he is the…
How to keep inflation under control, Econ 101
This cartoon is from today’s El Diario. Current Economics Bolivian minister is walking inside a supermarket and prices around him show the before and after changes! He is saying: “…it just take someone from the government to pronounce that little word starting with G… and they rise all without control..!…” The G word is for…
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