This cartoon is from La Prensa (10/15/11), it illustrates the frustration, desperation and belligerence of current government, regarding the rightful and legal claim of the TIPNIS population. Here, you can see a tunnel to La Paz, and the government saying “My last attempt, few days for their arrival” The legal advisor for APG (Guarani People Association)…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian society’s perception about Judicial “elections”
This cartoon is from El Diario, it shows this Friday how Bolivian society feels about the so-called “elections” for the Judicial System. People (blind) are going to take a dive into the Judicial elections, they do not know exactly who to vote for, as most of us do not know the candidates. On top of…
TIPNIS update as of October 14, 2011
The TIPNIS protest-walk has started walking up, to the highlands. The group started walking today around 6am, they are marching from Yolosa (69 kilometers away from La Paz city) and intend to reach Sacramento town. A leader from the Beni Indigenous People (CPIB), Wilma Mendoza is asking for solidarity to the organizations that are supporting this…
Bolivian government’s: Prebends, Bribery, Payoff; Subsidies, Bonuses or plain naiveté?
The following link is from an article that was written by Julio H. Linares C. and published by Los Tiempos, 10/12/11. Linares lists all the unrestricted, unplanned, highly questioned disbursements current Bolivian president has made since he assumed office and in special under this week’s “extraordinary” circumstances. Yes, too close to the so-called Judicial “elections”…
Current Bolivia’s friends: Venezuela, Iran, Syria… why??
With their openly antagonism against free enterprise practices and open market activities, this government engages in questionable relations; along with the ALBA alliance Bolivia has with Venezuela, it embarks more and more with regimes like those of Iran and Syria. The latter with serious internal problems, like in other countries that experienced the coming of…
Bolivian October Judicial “elections”? … no stupid, just “votation”!
That seems to be what most Bolivians feel about the Judicial “elections” that will take place this October 16th. All candidates in the absurdly and awkwardly large paper that portrays those “candidates” were not selected by merit in an open procedure. They were “pre-selected” by current political party in government. Thus, the quotes on the…
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