EFE, Market Research Telecast [para español, aqui]: La Paz, Nov 10 (EFE) .- The director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, urged the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, to “ensure” the right to peaceful protest after the strong clashes registered in the three days of the indefinite strike in the…
Gobierno indolente, corrupto y sanguinario – Indolent, corrupt and bloodthirsty government
Guider Arancibia, El Deber: Hooded men who attacked roadblocks were in vehicles seized from drug trafficking Two of the three pick-up tracks were identified by police. One of them was seized in the operation that intervened in the luxurious Imperial events room. The law establishes that these assets must be given to social welfare entities….
Bolivia unions go on strike as political tensions rise
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Bolivia’s transport and retail unions launched an indefinite strike on Monday to protest a law against so-called “illicit profits” and terrorist financing that critics allege is a government ruse to seize private property. Opposition civil and political groups joined the strike, accusing the socialist government of…
Las razones del paro – The reasons for the strike
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Civics, merchants, transporters and other sectors are starting an indefinite general strike today. It is the repetition, expanded, of what happened a month ago and that led the Government to withdraw from the Senate its bill against the Legitimation of Illicit Profits. In the case of the regulation opposed by various sectors…
Desgastado – Luis Arce – Worn Out
The wear of Arce in his first year of government The circumstances in which Luis Arce meets the first year of his government do not seem to be like a celebration. No, because the mobilization that -against Law 1386 on the National Strategy to Fight the Legitimation of Illicit Profits- begins the same day of…
Primera aviadora – Amalia Villa de la Tapia – First female aviator
El Potosi: Senate honors the first female aviator It took 27 years for the Bolivian Senate to do justice to the first female aviator in South America and to approve a posthumous decoration in memory of Amalia Villa de la Tapia from Potosi. Villa Ella died on March 4, 1994, when she had passed the…
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