Category: Social Unrest

The dog in the manger

The dog of the gardener (in the manger), is an article written by Susana Seleme Antelo. that appeared yesterday in El Deber, follows [there are some notes I made inside this type of brackets for clarifying purposes only]: The famous play by Lope de Vega [“El perro del hortelano”] inspired me to write about the manipulation…

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TIPNIS quick November 2011, UPDATE

The fight over their land is far from over. They succeeded in the approval of a short law that states the road will not cross the TIPNIS, however they are facing now more Machiavellian threats. For more detail on those threats, you can read articles written by Humberto Vacaflor (today) and Susana Seleme (will appear tomorrow),…

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The forgotten battle

The forgotten battle, article written by Humberto Vacaflor G. that appeared today in El Deber, follows [there are some notes I made inside this type of brackets for clarifying purposes]: The news agenda in the country gets so overloaded  that some news are neglected and some are forgotten, even if they are so important that announce major changes….

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Stolen vehicles and bureaucracy

Pagina Siete reports an estimated 8,000 stolen vehicles (mostly from neighboring countries) are currently in the process of nationalization, as declared by the president of the National Customs of Bolivia (ANB), Marlene Ardaya to ERBOL network, and published by Pagina Siete on Monday Oct. 31 . Ardaya previously indicated that, as a result of allowing over 128,000 vehicles that were smuggled and now in the process of making…

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Current president’s approval continues to drop to 35%

This chart shows the approval percentages in red; disapproval in green and does not respond (blue); please note the trend… figures from October 2009 to October 2011. There is discontent in Bolivia with the work of current Bolivian president, according to a survey showing that discontent rose to 55% last October and its management approval…

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