Bolivia’s interim leader should not run in election

From The Editorial Board, Financial Times: Jeanine Áñez’s plan to stand for president threatens hopes of more democratic future When Bolivians rose up and forced their autocratic president Evo Morales to flee into exile last November after he tried to steal an election, the resulting bitter divisions threatened to plunge the country into chaos. Negotiations…

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MAS is instability – El MAS es inestabilidad

Carlos Klinsky writes in El Deber; MAS is instability The last two signs of life launched by Evo Morales from Buenos Aires confirm his authoritarian character. First was the unhappy phrase about the “armed militias,” from which he had to retract at the risk of a revocation of his refuge in Argentina. And now, the…

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Pee Dee Electric Coop. linemen head to Bolivia for wildfire recovery

Antonio Stinson reports for WBTW: DARLINGTON, SC (WBTW) – Two linemen with Pee Dee Electric Cooperative are flying to Bolivia Sunday to help with repairs following the Amazon wildfires. PDEC’s crew leader, Eugene Bryant and first class lineman, Chris Blackmon are flying out from Charlotte, NC and heading for La Chiquitania, Bolivia. This will be…

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Drug Trafficking Defense – Defensa del narcotráfico

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Drug Trafficking Defense The discovery of 32 cocaine factories in just seven hours in Chapare, the destruction of a modern hydrochloride factory that produced a ton per day, the capture of a plane with a ton of Bolivian drugs in Mexico and the detention of linked millionaire masistas to…

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Bolivia struggles with severe dengue outbreak

UNTV reports: Ten people have died of dengue fever in Bolivia in the last week and there are at least 9,500 suspected cases nationwide, health authorities in the country said on Sunday (February 2). The department of Santa Cruz is one of the most affected, with more than 1,200 cases. On Sunday, Bolivian authorities fumigated…

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