Juan Leon writes in Pagina Siete: Washing dirty linen at home Brazil’s Lula Da Silva was at the dawn of the Bolivian process of change, one of the most supportive of the Government of Evo Morales’ political allies. The ideological affinity, strengthened by the origins of the union leadership of both rulers, generated a kind…
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The alleged terrorist-separatist case is falling down the cracks!
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Here we go again … but more It appears that the national government believe it is possible to move “away from the splashing made by Soza” and go out to discredit him with countless allegations, but mostly because Soza has ratified himself by the wording of the letter and…
Bolivian gov’s promises regarding our natural gas are blunt out lies
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The gas that we do not have President Evo Morales just said that some Central American countries would be interested in buying Bolivian natural gas. A few days earlier, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera had said that he was making the trip on board of the vice-presidential plane for…
Brazilian government does wrong with diplomats that helped Roger Pinto
From Oglobo.com, written by Demétrio Magnoli: Diplomatic Misery The State becomes a tool for achieving the purposes of the occasional occupants of the government. ‘Respect instructions, respect laws, but not about whims or manifestly illegal orders.” The statement given to the newspaper “A Tribuna”, from Vitória (5/4), should appear at the top of a manual of conduct…
Bolivian History 101: Brazil occupies Bolivian Acre territory!
Luis S. Crespo writes in El Diario, March 20, 1928: Brazil occupies Bolivia’s Acre The vanguard of the military expedition sent from Rio de Janeiro to invade the Acre, a command under Major Agostinho Gomes Raimundo Castro, occupied and took official possession of the barraca [farm] “Empresa”, obeying the orders and instructions of the Government…
Bolivian gov returning to the use of charcoal out of our dry and chaco forest!
Current Bolivian central government does exactly the opposite to its “political discourse”, the so-called environment protector is aiming at the destruction of our forest. A good Editorial from El Diario: Is Bolivia returning to colonial depredation? About ten years ago, several patriotic citizens denounced the Mutún iron ore deposit was being exploited by the Brazilian…
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