La Prensa reports: COLLECTIVE SHOWS ART EXHIBIT ON DISCRIMINATION In order to show discriminatory attitudes that are also a form of passive exercise violence, the group of muralists called Patunka Octubre will express these behaviors through their artwork. [picture was obtained when searching for “Bolivia discrimination pics”] The exhibition will be inaugurated today at the…
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Mutun, a constant reminder of current gov’s inefficiency!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Mutún gasometer The Mutún steel project is not working, it is true, but plays an irreplaceable role: used to know how much natural gas is available to Bolivians after the demand for Argentina and Brazil has been serviced. The “gas war” that was fought earlier this century, has…
Catholic bishops condemns ruling political party’s instruction to direct vote: well done!!!
Reports Ruy D’Alencar for El Deber: 2014 ELECTION Bishops condemn the instructed/directed vote and the MAS attacks them In its second statement, the Catholic hierarchy calls for denouncing pressures during the suffrage. A spokesman from the MAS accused them of campaigning for Tuto and Samuel. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, through the secretary of…
Bolivia’s terrorism of state?! We demand justice to know who promoted it and then, punish the guilty!
From The Irish Times by Tom Hennigan: The room where Michael Dwyer died More than five years after he was shot dead by police, Irishman’s mother and sister visit Bolivia to find out more about how and why he died. [for more pictures, go to the original link, at the bottom, thank you] They wore summer…
Bolivians should not surrender, we must put up a fight against the ruling coca grower!
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: Put up a fight any way you can If there are only three weeks to the general elections and surveys have been frozen with most irrefutable victory by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), it is best not to look at them-nor believe surveys and even fight biting. If after…
UN human rights commission cannot work in Bolivia
Correo del Sur reports: QHARA QHARA FILES HARASSMENT COMPLAINT IN QUILA QUILA Unions deny passage to a UN commission A human rights commission of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner was prevented yesterday [09/09/2014] to enter the territory of the Nation Qhara Qhara Suyu by a group of affiliated unions in the site, yesterday reported…
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