Noa Landau reports for Haaretz: Ex-Bolivian President Morales decided in 2009 to cut all ties with Israel after Israel’s offensive in Gaza, and recognized Palestine as an independent state in 2010 Bolivia announced Thursday that it will renew its diplomatic ties with Israel after a decade in which relations between the two countries were severed….
Sowers of Violence – Sembradores de la violencia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete, cartoon at the bottom from El Potosi: Sowers of Violence For years Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera sowed a hate speech in the country, went to encourage racism to use it in an instrumental way to get to power and stay in it. They used victimization as a…
Bolivia appoints Oscar Serrate as Ambassador to the USA
Excerpts from BBC News follows, photo from Pagina Siete: Bolivia crisis: Interim leader appoints first US envoy in 11 years Bolivia’s interim leader has appointed the country’s first US ambassador in 11 years, after vowing to overturn many of ex-President Evo Morales’ policies. The new ambassador, Walter Oscar Serrate Cuellar, used to be the country’s…
Bolivia deal for new elections offers chance of peace
Michael Stott, Latin America editor, reports for Financial Times: Bill annuls results of disputed vote last month in which exiled Evo Morales had claimed victory Jeanine Añez, Bolivian interim president, signs a law bill to hold new elections. The Bolivian Senate approved the day before the fresh parliamentary election, with former president Evo Morales ineligible…
Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste [BT: great piece, accurate reading]
Ryan C. Berg reports for National Review, photo at the end from the internet: Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the…
How an Unknown Female Senator Came to Replace the Bolivian Strongman Evo Morales
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Cesar Del Castillo for The New York Times. Pictures at the bottom summarize our ordeal to get rid of autocrat Morales: Inside the scramble to fill the power vacuum and name a leader to guide the country out of political chaos. LA PAZ, Bolivia — A day after the downfall of Bolivia’s longest-serving president,…
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