Juan Cristóbal Soruco, Página Siete: His first statement after being sworn in as Minister of Justice and Transparency, on November 9, 2020, gave me hope that there was at least one new authority that seemed to understand the message of the October elections of that year and that he was determined to lead a reconciliation…
Tag: authoritarianism
Lethal masismo 101 | Masismo letal 101
Luis Eduardo Siles, Los Tiempos: The dead by the MAS When these ridiculous fools tell you about the dead of Sacaba and Senkata, that it is their responsibility, remind them: 2006: The confrontation between salaried miners and cooperative members in Huanuni (Oruro) left 12 dead and 60 wounded. 2007: The repression in La Calancha, in…
Are we so irrelevant as a country, or does the international community tremble before masismo? | ¿Somos tan irrelevantes como país, o la comunidad internacional tiembla ante el masismo?
Veronica Ormachea , Página Siete: Añez condemned being innocent We Bolivians live in a country that makes no sense since we have a failed state. Where the lie is State policy. Former president Jeanine Añez was sentenced to 10 years in prison without having committed a crime. A scoundrel. She has been a victim of…
The “judicial fraud” | El “fraude judicial”
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Between October and November 2019, according to reports from the OAS and the European Union, Evo Morales and his party, the MAS, committed fraudulent electoral manipulation or electoral fraud. Now, after the sentence to former constitutional president Jeanine Áñez, to 10 years in prison, the same actor seeks to commit a “judicial…
“You have to beat up the camba” | “Hay que sentarle la mano a la camba”
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: That Jeanine Añez Chávez, from Beni, white, as well as nice, had assumed command of the nation, in November 2019, occupying the place that Evo Morales cowardly abandoned, must have caused immense pain among the mestizo and indigenous masismo that could not bear this insult. That a camba took possession of…
Bolivia: UN Rapporteur says Áñez’s conviction tinted with political meddling
MercoPress: Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego García-Sayán has said he saw politics had meddled in the judicial ruling whereby former Bolivian interim President Janine Àñez was sentenced to ten years in jail for crimes against the Constitution. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers said he saw a “political intervention”…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 