Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo’s acolytes have been disregarding this ruling … the production of coca leaves is far more interesting to them ,,, and of course for narcotrafficking … I would be extremely surprised to see evo back tracking to his relentless desire to cut in half the TIPNIS … he is pushing an illegitimate…
ANP registers 631 attacks on the press
Ismael Luna reports for El Dia: Between 2010 and 2018 The document is part of one of the five civil society reports sent for the UN Universal Periodic Review In an average of 71 cases per year, the Monitoring and Surveillance Unit for Press Freedom and Expression in Bolivia from 2010 to 2018 has cataloged…
The historical and critical narration of Querejazu about national pictorial art
Caio Ruvenal reports for Opinion: Interview with the author of the book Painting in Bolivia in the XXth Century (BBB) that is presented, in a second revised and expanded edition, next Thursday 23 at the Melchor Pinto Cultural Center in Santa Cruz. In 1989, the Banco Hipotecario Nacional, celebrating its centenary, launched the book Bolivian…
Bad politics 101: An illegal, illegitimate, unethical candidacy
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario: The life of modern societies evolves according to the norms, that is to say to the norms and laws, it is the state of law in which all citizens, without exception, are subject to compliance with the laws, but in the societies subject to regimes of authoritarian and dictatorial…
The rapes haunting a community that shuns the 21st Century
Linda Pressly reports for BBC News: In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and girls – including small children – within this small Christian community. So why are Manitoba’s leaders…
A journalist reveals the human cost of modern mining through the vivid story of a young Bolivian mine worker
Karen Hudson-Edwards reports for Science: Alicia Quispe is preparing to go to work in the adobe hut she shares with her mother, Rosa, and sister, Evelyn. The hut, located on the outskirts of the Bolivian town of Potosí, has no windows, running water, or electricity. As she walks to the job site, she carries stones…
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