It is 9:16 and El Deber’s website reports that the protest-walk has decided to enter San Ignacio de Moxos, the people blockading the access remain blockading, please be alert as I will tweet developments as they evolve… Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber. Along the article, I am inserting a number of cartoons that portray…
Former ally accuses current government of generating the social conflicts
Pagina Siete reports: [The former ally of current government, the political party] Without Fear Movement [MSM] issued a statement on the recent social developments, which points out that conflicts are caused and promoted by the Government of President Evo Morales. The document – entitled “the origin of social conflicts is the plan of repositioning the…
May 7, 2012: a week full of conflict and potential escalating violence
TIPNIS protest-walk group is facing today a blockade in San Ignacio de Moxos, TV news showing people with brand new rolls of barbed wire “fencing” the road where the marchers are supposed to be passing-by today (whose financing?), marchers’ group is around 11 km away of this conflicting town. Some inhabitants of that town do…
Reflecting on our imposed? political style with some humor…
April was a hectic month and this one appears to be following that trend… here a few cartoons that illustrate our ordeal: This is from Los Tiempos, April 24, 2012: Press news: “A radio that reported about the 9th march was attacked” and “start blockade against the protest-walk” dog: “what kind of fool are we…
Bolivia’s performance: just got 0.71% of all investments that came to South America – CEPAL
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) -the Spanish acronym is CEPAL- was established by Economic and Social Council resolution 106(VI) of 25 February 1948 and began to function that same year. (3 May 2012) Latin America and the Caribbean received US$153.448 billion from foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2011, which represents 10% of the global…
Health strike sees some results, although not enough…
From El Deber’s website, as reported last night, here is the government’s decision regarding the nationwide health strike over the eight-hour-work-day. After the article, a few cartoons regarding this conflict that current government allowed to escalate: Morales [current president], speaking on the State channel for about eight minutes, said that the measure [to raise from…
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