By Baldwin Montero, Vision 360: Tension Focuses on the Chapare: Government Points to a Narcoterrorist Movement and Coca Growers Announce Civil Disobedience “The Tropics region will organize itself, we will defend ourselves, we have no other choice. If the government truly wants to subdue us, it will have to kill the more than 250,000 members…
Tag: bad politics
The Country That Is Beginning to Be Born | El país que empieza a nacer
By Antonio Saravia, Eju.tv: Could it be that these terrible days of anguish and suffering represent the painful birth of a new country? Could it be that this is the rock bottom we had to hit in order to finally rebuild a nation set once again on the path of progress? The roadblock organizers from…
Roadblocks Are a Criminal Measure Disguised as Social Protest | Bloqueos son una medida criminal que es disfrazada de protesta social
By El Diario: They See an “Invisible Death Sentence” Stating that the Bolivian population can no longer endure what amounts to an “invisible death sentence” and the collapse of the healthcare system caused by roadblocks organized by “union leaderships,” former senator Henry Montero asserted that the organizations currently mobilized are promoting sedition and are not…
Crash of a Nation | Colapso de una Nación
By The Economist: Protesters have controlled Bolivia’s capital for a month To lift their blockades, they want the centrist president, Rodrigo Paz, to resign When túpac katari, an indigenous leader, laid siege to La Paz for more than 100 days in 1781, the city folk were reduced to eating cats and dogs. La Paz today…
Bolivia: Economic Toll Mounts | Crece el Costo Económico
By ANF, Eju.tv: Businesses Warn of Company Closures and Job Losses After 32 Days of Protests and Road Blockades The manager of the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE), Gary Rodríguez, warned that Bolivia’s image has been damaged internationally, which could lead to a decline in investment. After 32 days of protests and road blockades,…
The Altiplano Jihad | La Jihad altiplánica
By Diego Ayo, Brujula Digital: Hearing a peasant announce that “we are going to carpet the La Paz-Oruro highway with corpses” is dramatic. It is even worse when a pair of lawmakers openly devote themselves to issuing threats without the slightest shame. Nilton Condori states that “if we are going to change the Political Constitution…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 