Merco Press [For Spanish version Pagina Siete]: United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday. UN rapporteurs Marcos Orellana (toxic substances and human rights) and José Francisco Cali…
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¿Existe institucionalidad y respeto de las instituciones? – Is there institutionality and respect for institutions?
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Democracy or authoritarianism Since 2016, when the Referendum was held, Bolivia has been facing this dilemma, democracy or authoritarianism, others prefer to say that it is about the opposition between democracy versus dictatorship, on the other hand, there are many who refer to the confrontation between democracy and autocracy. This last…
¿De qué amenaza? Y ¿qué democracia? – What threat? And what democracy?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Offenses to democracy “It is not revenge, it is justice”, repeat the followers of the MAS, along with the narrative that in Bolivia there was a coup in 2019. But the actions, hand in hand with the Police and the Public Ministry, as occurred during the government of Jeanine Áñez, they look…
MAS: Fomenta la violencia – Encourages violence
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Permissiveness towards the armed group The armed group that operates in San Julián and Guarayos acted violently for the second time in less than a month, this time against police and prosecutors who tried to execute the arrest warrants against the main defendants in the kidnapping of a group of journalists, in…
Un descarado embajador argentino – A shameless Argentine ambassador
Jesus Alanoca, El Deber: Former Foreign Minister considers the interference of the Argentine ambassador “shameless” and asks to demand his removal She maintains that the presence of Basteiro in the MAS march violates the Vienna Convention and the principle of sovereignty of the peoples. The diplomat accompanied Evo on his trip to La Paz Former…
NO a la represa/No to the dam: Chepete-El Bala
ANF, El Diario: Defense Committee rejects the Chepete-El Bala project Through a public statement, the Committee for the Defense of Amazonian life in the Madera River Basin rejected the implementation of the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project as an ecocidal threat, that is, of destruction of nature. Denounced that the government of Luis Arce Catacora intends…
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