Cat Rainsford writes for InSight Crime: Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in the Andean nation. The clashes broke out at the beginning of August between two sectors of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers…
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Seeks An Unprecedented Fourth Term
Story by The Real News Network, picture at the end from the internet: August 13, 2019 The race for Bolivia’s presidency has begun and Evo Morales, has a good chance of winning, if voters forgive him for the term limits controversy. Linda Farthing discusses the situation in Bolivia Story Transcript GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real…
The slow agony of Bolivian natural gas
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, graph from the internet: Memories of the present Slow agony of gas It is sad to attend a funeral when some of the relatives are partying. Some cultures usually do the party, but after the burial. Before the death nobody does parties. What would the dying say. And that…
Bolivian Sociopolitical/Economics 101 – Miraculous populism: discourse and reality
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario, picture from the internet: In these months the permanent electoral campaign of more than thirteen years of the government of “masista populism” has been increased, around the president who governs us three continuous periods, against what is provided by the Political Constitution of the State (written by and for…
Bolivia, a well-loved country, celebrated 194 years of freedom
Armando Mariaca writes in El Diario, picture from the internet: To feel that on August 6, the country celebrates another year of free and independent life, it should be for all Bolivians reason and cause to reformulate purposes that tend to love and serve it with greater force, with honesty and responsibility; but, unfortunately, this…
Preventing violence
Britta Wiemers and Henry Cervantes report for Development and Cooperation: Socialization Violent behaviour is learned. It is reinforced by patriarchal structures and a belief in male superiority. A civil-society organisation in Bolivia is taking preventive action by making young people reconsider gender roles. Violence is not an innate biological characteristic; it is learned – like…
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