Editorial, El Deber: A kidnapped mayor The mayor of El Alto, Soledad Chapetón, was kidnapped by residents of the 14th district of that city, and was held in the Virgen de Urkupiña temple from 4:00 p.m. on Saturday until late at night as a measure of pressure to force her to sign an agreement to…
Tag: demagogue
Sin Justicia – No Justice
Editorial, Página Siete: Justice held by MAS One of the previous government’s strategic ideas to co-opt justice was attributed to the former Minister of Justice Héctor Arce, currently under asylum in the residence of the Mexican Embassy: the popular election of magistrates. The mechanism was very simple and effective: the ruling party encouraged hundreds of…
Ambición destructiva – Destructive ambition
Editorial, El Diario: Ambitious seek to destroy the country All the extreme actions that the people have endured a few weeks ago have come to deeply distress and worry them. Those who are determined to destroy the country seem that they will never measure the consequences of their actions that, almost certainly, could lead to…
Legado pésimo – evo – Dreadful legacy
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: A harmful inheritance The Bartolinas have asked the cocalero Morales not to get involved in the electoral campaign, the peasant leader of Oruro Johnny Rocha, (of the MAS), asks that Morales be expelled from the party, the president of deputies, Sergio Choque, says that the cocalero would have to defend himself…
Bolivia judge confirms ex-president Morales cannot run for senate
AFP for France 24: La Paz (AFP) A judge in Bolivia on Monday ruled that former president Evo Morales is not eligible to run for a senate seat in October’s elections, the government announced. Justice Minister Alvaro Coimbra wrote on Twitter, “Urgent Evo Morales Disqualified,” after Judge Alfredo Jaimes Terrazas confirmed the former president was…
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