Nick Dall reports for Ozy: General Mariano Melgarejo, the 18th president of Bolivia, had barely been in office a year when he was — according to some sources — defeated in battle in La Paz, the capital, by his archrival, former President Manuel Isidoro Belzu. Instead of accepting defeat, Melgarejo gate-crashed the victory party at…
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In Bolivia, A Backlash Against Women in Politics/En Bolivia, una reacción violenta contra las mujeres en política
Alice Campaignolle, Irene Escudero, and Carlos Heras report for Nacla: In Bolivia, women in power, such as Indigenous mayor Bertha Quispe, often suffer political harassment and violence. Read a Spanish version of this article here. Bertha Quispe was 28-years-old when she was elected mayor of Collana, a small town in the Bolivian Altiplano of just over…
Use of state assets for MAS activities
El Diario reports, photo from the internet: Opponents ask the OEP [Multi-national Electoral Body] for a report The Foreign Ministry affirms that the authority is of Public Works, which in turn does not respond. A representative of “bartolinas” assures that “she has no knowledge” and a vocal of the TED asserts that “by responsibility can…
Catholic Church considers that racism has worsened
ERBOL reports: It warns a lot of intolerance Father José Fuentes. Photo: Iglesia Viva. The deputy secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, Father José Fuentes, considers that the problem of racism in the country during the process of change led by the current government has worsened, due to the increase in intolerance and…
Bribes that have to be paid to be able to work … evo delivers!
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Contribute “voluntarily” to be able to work We have one year of electoral campaign ahead, that means that public officials should increase their “voluntary” contributions to the MAS campaign. Certainly much of the second Christmas bonus will go to the coffers of the governing party and if the official…
If this is not a loud and hard slap onto evo, I don’t know what it is …
Erbol reports via El Diario: Vice President-elect of Brazil: “Unasur died” “Unasur’s practically failed, died and forgot to go to bed,” said the vice president-elect of Brazil, Antonio Hamilton Mourau, regarding the situation of the international organization, whose current presidency has Bolivia. Mourau, formula companion of Jair Bolsonaro, made those statements in an interview with…
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