Joseph M. Humire writes in The Hill, photo from the internet: After years of watching embattled Nicolás Maduro remain in power in Venezuela, many international observers did not expect Evo Morales to resign as president of Bolivia. But after massive electoral fraud, from top to bottom, Morales’s credibility in the country evaporated. To save whatever legitimacy he…
Tag: corruption in public office
Bolivia’s farmers criticize Morales, fight centralization
AFP reports fro France 24: Montero (Bolivia) (AFP) Bolivian dairy farmer Jose Roca’s blue eyes glow with anger when he talks about indigenous ex-president Evo Morales and his supporters. “They call us racists, separatists, all the bad adjectives are for us,” he says. With his 500 cows and 250 acres of land, Roca is a…
Sowers of Violence – Sembradores de la violencia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete, cartoon at the bottom from El Potosi: Sowers of Violence For years Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera sowed a hate speech in the country, went to encourage racism to use it in an instrumental way to get to power and stay in it. They used victimization as a…
Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste [BT: great piece, accurate reading]
Ryan C. Berg reports for National Review, photo at the end from the internet: Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the…
Narcs deciding violent acts against Bolivian people
From a golden exile, imparting instructions to a wanted fugitive narc since 2016
Evo, the creator of fear – Evo, el creador del miedo
Diego Ayo writes in El Deber, photo at the bottom from the internet: Evo, the creator of fear Evo summons to die. The ex-president of Bolivia launches a proclamation almost of faith to go to prostrate to death. And he can only hover around a question: doesn’t it hurt that his Chapareño brothers die trying…
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