Paola Flores reports for AP: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A man with a sledgehammer pounded at the bust of his country’s former leader adorning a huge sports stadium that his government had built and named after the then long-reigning president. Ministers from the current government applauded as the head came down. It was a…
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Morales’ verbal incontinence – La incontinencia verbal de Morales
Pagina Siete Editorial: Morales’ verbal incontinence The actions of former President Evo Morales are increasingly erratic. It is noted that having left the country, and its geographical remoteness with respect to Bolivia, are affecting its decisions. There is almost no day in which Morales does not make a statement and many of them are failed…
Las milicias y la no retractación de Evo
Editorial Página Siete: Si algo bueno tiene el expresidente Evo Morales es que cuando se siente entre amigos dice la verdad sin medir las consecuencias de su retórica, tal como ocurrió cuando ordenó el cerco a las ciudades, primero en público siendo aún jefe de Estado, y luego en una conversación telefónica con un dirigente…
Chávez and Evo Morales: Bolivians Destroy Socialist Monuments
Mamela Fiallo Flor reports for PanAm Post: After Evo Morales called for a militia to guard his return to Bolivia, protesters destroyed a bust of the former president Evo Morales’ political career had its start as well as end in Cochabamba. A statue of the now-former president of Bolivia was hammered down in the municipality of Quillacollo,…
Bolivia military ‘outraged’ over exiled Morales militia claim
AFP reports via Yahoo News: La Paz (AFP) – Bolivia’s armed forces hit out at exiled former president Evo Morales on Monday after he said he would introduce armed local militias similar to those in Venezuela if he returns home. “Bolivia’s people are hurt and our armed forces outraged,” said Defense Minister Luis Fernando Lopez…
Pernicious unions and socialism 101 – Sindicatos perniciosos y socialismo 101
Carlos Toranzo brightfully describes our ordeal dealing with unions and narcotraffick, he writes in Pagina Siete. Photo from the internet: Anti dictatorial Civil Society It was always stated that Bolivian civil society is anti-dictatorial, but it is one thing to possess an anti-dictatorial soul and another, different, that its organizations, especially the unions, be democratic,…
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