AFP, Yahoo News: Bolivia’s government announced on Friday it has contacted the International Criminal Court to denounce former president Evo Morales for “crimes against humanity” over last month’s mass roadblock movement. The government accused Morales of “terrorism and genocide” over the 12-day campaign that saw hospitals complain they were unable to receive urgent medical supplies…
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Obituario del cínico – Obituary of the cynic
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: Memories of the present The collapse of the MAS and its leader must be calmly analyzed. Very few times in the history of the country has there been such an accelerated collapse that it threatens to create a very large void. Two Masista parliamentarians pronounced very clear sentences in recent days:…
Reconstruir – Rebuild
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Evo fell, but evism remained In November 2019, the MAS, headed by Evo Morales, when it had already ruled the country for fourteen years, was not only characterized by having arranged and administered more money than all the governments in the history of Bolivia, but also by other aspects that were…
Moral degradation – evo – Degradación moral
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Moral degradation was his policy What happened in October and November 2019 was not only a crisis of excess patronage and state prebendalism, it not only implied the defense of the vote and democracy against authoritarianism that was on the way to a dictatorship; what Bolivia experienced was deeper than that,…
Daño – economic – Damage
Editorial, El Diario: Blockers caused serious economic damage to the country How much regret and indignation the strikes and blockades carried out by the COB and the masismo have caused in the community; but, to a great extent, the blockers have seriously damaged the national economy and placed the people in greater poverty than they…
Conspiradores – cocaleros – Conniving
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Two coca-growers’ strategies The pupil of the coca grower Morales, Andrónico Rodríguez, has tried to surprise by saying that, in his opinion, the best candidate for the presidency at this moment is Carlos Mesa. But what it has done is to show that the Argentine advisers that the coca grower has…
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