Tag: anarchy

Damn the Chinese and damn evo!

David Hill reports for The Guardian: Fears for isolated Bolivian tribe met by Chinese oil firm in Amazon Company operating near the border with Peru has reportedly had near encounters with indigenous people living in “isolation” Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters…

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A nightmare called evo …

This cartoon is from El Diario, 10/12/2016: It reflects what we Bolivians had to endure for the last eleven years, under the worst possible populist ochlocrat. Stopping on democracy this relentless coca grower leader wants to remain in power. He changed the Constitution so he could remain in power, despite his first declaration that he…

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evo’s legacy … as he continues to destroy Bolivia!

This cartoon [10/05/2016] is from El Diario: Bolivia led by the current president, is dangerously approaching the cliff, anarchy rules and everyone pushes to their own preferred way … The coca grower’s caudillo legacy can be summarized in the above cartoon … He managed to make Bolivians fight among each other. He sowed discord among…

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South Florida man arrested for trying to send AK-47s to Bolivia

Alfonso Chardy reports for the Miami Herald: South Florida man arrested for trying to send AK-47s to Bolivia A South Florida man, Andrés Mejía Tellez, has been arrested during a federal sting operation during which he admitted to trying to export five AK-47 assault rifles to Bolivia from Miami, according to federal court records. Mejía…

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Bolivia’s ‘Taliban’ miners have something to tell us

Eduardo Baptista writes in Varsity: Bolivia’s ‘Taliban’ miners have something to tell us When Eduardo Baptista escaped an exploding mountain, it got him thinking about how we make ourselves heard. I was sleeping blissfully with my face smack against the bus window when a cacophony of increasingly loud Spanish-speaking voices woke me up. “Blockade, the…

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