Raúl Peñaranda, Pagina Siete: Rape and end of cycle The country is experiencing how the end of the cycle of Evo Morales’ leadership is ratified. More than 30 years of political career has begun to show obvious signs of exhaustion. Isolated, in a house in Liniers, in Buenos Aires, far from the Bolivian centers of…
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Bolivia probes alleged Morales affair with minor
By AFP for Macau Business: Bolivia’s justice ministry has filed a criminal complaint against 60-year-old former president Evo Morales over an alleged sexual relationship with a minor, Deputy Minister Guido Melgar said Thursday. “The Justice Ministry has filed a complaint against citizen Juan Evo Morales Ayma for the crimes of statutory rape and human trafficking,”…
Coronavirus Is Fuelling Child Labour in Bolivia
Amy Booth reports for Vice News: More children will work to survive now that the government has paused the education system until 2021, say observers. A decision by Bolivia’s interim government to suspend the academic year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the region’s most impoverished, rural nations promises to drive more children…
Servant-Leaders Making a Difference in Bolivia
Wittenberg University reports: JUSTIN ’98 AND JANET THOMAS HENRY ’98 Justin ’98 and Janet Thomas Henry ’98 run a children’s home in Bolivia. They submitted the following story about their work and the journey they took to get there. Justin and Janet Thomas Henry have two homes – but it’s not what you think. For…
UNICEF broadcasts messages on the protection of children and adolescents in Chiquitanía
UN Children’s Fund reports: Because the rights of Mother Earth are the rights of children, through an alliance with 32 local broadcasting stations in 17 municipalities in the area affected by the fires UNICEF can broadcast messages about care and protection of the children and adolescents suffering from this emergency. This activity reaches an estimated…
The Hovde Foundation Opens a New Hovde House in La Paz, Bolivia
Hovde Foundation through PRNewsWire.com: A Home for Girls and Teenagers Living in the Streets MADISON, Wis., Feb. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In the area of Huajchilla, Bolivia, south of the city of La Paz, a new home named “Hovde House: Marta Bedoya de Claure” has opened its doors for thirty vulnerable girls and teenagers living in the streets. The construction of…
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