Veronica Ormachea, Pagina Siete: “Get vaccinated those who can,” say the Bolivians. Such is the deficiency of the vaccination system in Bolivia, that the best vaccine is the one that citizens manage to be inoculated with. We have suffered and continue to suffer from the confinement, the security protocols and now there is another stumbling…
Tag: corruption in public office
Land Trafficking Fuels Constant Corruption in Bolivia
InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
The coca grower raves – El cocalero delira
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The purger should be purged The head of the MAS, Evo Morales, has announced an internal purge to get rid of the renovators of his party who are within the government of Luis Arce and of his party structures. That, according to him, is the main conclusion of the meeting to evaluate…
A deranged masismo – Un masismo desquiciado
Pagina Siete: Militias, that madness The so-called Coordinator for the Defense of Democracy, which responds to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), was launched yesterday with the mad idea of changing the Constitution to create armed militias in the country destined to replace the Armed Forces. If there were not a context of hardening of the…
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
Opposition travels to the US to report persecution to the IACHR, OAS – Oposición viaja a EEUU para denunciar persecución ante la CIDH, OEA
Pagina Siete: The delegation is made up of deputies and senators from Comunidad Ciudadana and Creemos. A mixed delegation of legislators from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) and Creemos traveled to the United States to denounce political persecution of opponents. They are expected to meet with representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Organization…
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