Editorial, Los Tiempos: Dispute over gold and land The violence that has been unleashed in the town of Chushuara, in Apolo, in La Paz, is not isolated and, on the contrary, reveals a plot of interests of corporate groups that is outside the control of the State. And that sometimes has the State, paradoxically, as…
Tag: authoritarianism
Masista contempt for Human Rights – Desprecio masista por los Derechos Humanos
Juan Jose Toro, Pagina Siete: Rotten ombudsman The Ombudsman is an institution, or authority, generally established in the constitutions, whose function is to guarantee the rights of citizens against the abuses of political powers. In other words, its essence is to defend the citizen from public powers. When there was a debate to create this…
It is not a good time for a double Christmas bonus or salary increase – No es buen momento para doble aguinaldo o incremento salarial
El Diario: Minister Marcelo Montenegro and the president of the BCB agreed on the goal of GDP growth of 5.1%, a fiscal deficit of 8.5% of GDP and an inflation rate of around 3.3%. The general manager of IBCE, Gary Rodríguez, agreed with the private businessmen to freeze the salary increase because the purchasing power…
The trials against Áñez – Los juicios contra Áñez
Editorial, Los Tiempos: After a postponement due to procedural problems, the lawsuit against former president Jeanine Áñez is restarted today [03/28/2022] in the “Coup d’etat II” case, which from the beginning has encountered irregularities and shortcomings. The first process against Áñez is the so-called “Coup d’etat I”, which has been instituted for the alleged crimes…
Carvajal denounces that they did not let her visit Pumari in Cantumarca – Carvajal denuncia que no le dejaron visitar a Pumari en Cantumarca
Página Siete: The president of the Apdhb pointed out that the order not to let her see the civic potosino came from the Ministry of Government. The president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Amparo Carvajal, denounced that after hours of waiting, they did not let her see the civic leader…
What they forget in the MAS – Lo que olvidan en el MAS
Página Siete: A little more than a year after having suffered a fracture that led him to lose the Mayor’s Office of El Alto and in the midst of internal expulsions and growing denunciations of prorogation of the leading dome, the MAS, or at least some of its leaders and militants, they blame the right…
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