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…
Category: TIPNIS
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…
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),…
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….
Presidential duality or ambivalence?
In an earlier post, I wrote about duality, please see the following link: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/presidential-duality/ I tried to understand the duality in functions/priorities of current Bolivian president. However, the article from El Deber below shows more ambivalence… than duality per se. After a decision to enforce by law the rights of the TIPNIS indigenous people and nationwide…
Presidential duality?
El Diario cartoon (10/29/11) is eloquent!! Current Bolivian president and current coca grower leader of the six federations from the Chapare region is being handled like a kid who did something terribly wrong. As he holds the TIPNIS agreement he had to endure, the coca growers in the person of one of their leaders who…
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