Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
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Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
Brazil conditions the gas purchase contract
ANF reports in El Deber: Brazil conditions the gas purchase contract Diplomat Santos Rocha believes that the new contract will be beneficial for both countries. Brazil’s new natural gas purchase contract will fit Brazil’s new energy context, said Brazilian ambassador to the country, Raymundo Santos Rocha, is confident that his country will soon be out…
How the ruling party keeps lying in Bolivia!
A Sub Editorial from Pagina Siete: The real lie of 21F The marches and concentrations for the Yes and for the No to the continuity of Evo Morales were full, crowded, impressive. The street used to “belong” to the MAS, there, the ruling party always won. However, this time, citizens who asked to respect the…
One Year Ago Bolivia Said No — President Morales Needs to Listen
Jeanette Bonifaz writes in The Huftington Post: One Year Ago Bolivia Said No — President Morales Needs to Listen One year ago, on February 21, 2016, Bolivian President Evo Morales was defeated in a national referendum. The Bolivian people voted against a constitutional amendment that would have allowed him to run for a fourth consecutive…
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