By Celene Fitzgerald, The Centralia Chronicle reports for TDN, photos from The Daily Chronicle: Pastor Tracy Durham of the Vader Assembly of God Church got uncomfortably close to the political unrest in Bolivia earlier this fall, experiencing some tense moments at street barricades but ultimately siding with the protesters in their cause against a socialist…
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Election Fraud Aided Former Bolivian President, International Panel Concludes
Anatoly Kurmanaev reports for The New York Times: Charges of voting fraud that led to protests and the exile of President Evo Morales have been confirmed in a final report by the Organization of American States. An independent international audit of Bolivia’s disputed election concluded that former President Evo Morales’s officials resorted to lies, manipulation and forgery to…
OAS Final Report: A discovered culprit! – morales to transcend into history as a cheap fraud!
Reuters reports for VoA: OAS Final Report: Bolivia Election Rigging in Favor of Morales ‘Overwhelming’ SANTIAGO, CHILE – An Americas regional forum on Wednesday published details of “deliberate” and “malicious” steps to rig Bolivia’s October election in favor of then President Evo Morales, who has resigned and left the Andean nation in political crisis. A…
The Morales critics within Bolivia’s indigenous community
TRT World reports: The former Bolivian president is credited with lifting many out of poverty and for spurring economic growth, but some in the indigenous community believe his legacy is not as rose-tinted as is portrayed. When former president Evo Morales won the 2005 election, he became Bolivia’s first indigenous president from the Aymara community,…
How Bolivia’s Mighty Morales Has Fallen
Raul Peñaranda writes for NPR News: Raúl Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist, former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and author of a book on former President Evo Morales’ efforts to control the media in Bolivia. Peñaranda is the editor of the news site Brújula Digital. He was the most important Bolivian leader of the…
Mexican cartels in Bolivia – Los cárteles mexicanos en Bolivia
Editorial from Los Tiempos, photos from the internet: Mexican cartels in Bolivia Among the many problems that afflict our country, there is one that looms as one of the most fearsome threat to the future. These are the activities related to drug trafficking, and their multiple sequels. The data that account for the magnitude of…
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