$100 thousand for Evo? – ¿$us 100 mil para Evo?

Página Siete reports, photo/video at the bottom from the internet: $100 thousand for Evo? The national authorities, the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office have done well to detain María Palacios, the woman who took 100,000 undeclared dollars to Buenos Aires and whose migratory flow indicates that she has left the country 40 times in the…

Chávez and Evo Morales: Bolivians Destroy Socialist Monuments

Mamela Fiallo Flor reports for PanAm Post: After Evo Morales called for a militia to guard his return to Bolivia, protesters destroyed a bust of the former president Evo Morales’ political career had its start as well as end in Cochabamba. A statue of the now-former president of Bolivia was hammered down in the municipality of Quillacollo,…

Bolivia military ‘outraged’ over exiled Morales militia claim

AFP reports via Yahoo News: La Paz (AFP) – Bolivia’s armed forces hit out at exiled former president Evo Morales on Monday after he said he would introduce armed local militias similar to those in Venezuela if he returns home. “Bolivia’s people are hurt and our armed forces outraged,” said Defense Minister Luis Fernando Lopez…

Propaganda Void – Vacío de propaganda

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Propaganda Void The feeling of relief that has existed since November 10 in the country has been strengthened with the resounding silence of the overwhelming propaganda that has been disseminated since 2006. It is as if some powerful speakers that were deafening the people had gone out and suddenly…

Pernicious unions and socialism 101 – Sindicatos perniciosos y socialismo 101

Carlos Toranzo brightfully describes our ordeal dealing with unions and narcotraffick, he writes in Pagina Siete. Photo from the internet: Anti dictatorial Civil Society It was always stated that Bolivian civil society is anti-dictatorial, but it is one thing to possess an anti-dictatorial soul and another, different, that its organizations, especially the unions, be democratic,…