May 7, 2012: a week full of conflict and potential escalating violence

TIPNIS protest-walk group is facing today a blockade in San Ignacio de Moxos, TV news showing people with brand new rolls of barbed wire “fencing” the road where the marchers are supposed to be passing-by today (whose financing?), marchers’ group is around 11 km away of this conflicting town. Some inhabitants of that town do…

Reflecting on our imposed? political style with some humor…

April was a hectic month and this one appears to be following that trend… here a few cartoons that illustrate our ordeal: This is from Los Tiempos, April 24, 2012: Press news: “A radio that reported about the 9th march was attacked” and “start blockade against the protest-walk” dog: “what kind of fool are we…

A useless Bolivian government holiday and its politics’ style

I remember a Vietnamese friend, we developed a friendship despite our political and economical views, who described that he and his wife worked for their government from Monday thru Saturday, more than 10 hours per day; on Sunday they worked for their own kid, to save for his education and health. The whole population was…

Current Bolivian president’s acceptance drops by 50%!!

There is an old say: “you harvest what you sown” and that finally gets proven for beautiful Bolivia, as Pagina Siete reflects in today’s article: Much has happened between the end of this year and that December 2009, when Evo Morales swept presidential elections and the drop in his popularity is a sign of things….