Pagina Siete reports: Thanks to the mediation of former President Andrés Pastrana, the Pro Santa Cruz Committee was able to deliver the request for consultation to the Colombian President. Colombian President Iván Duque received the Bolivian request yesterday for that country to raise before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court) whether the re-election…
Tag: democracy in peril
OAS chief gives a boost to Bolivia’s dictatorship. What does he stand to gain?
Andres Oppenheimer writes for the Miami Herald: Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the 34-nation Organization of American States, deserves a lot of credit for his leadership in the fight for democracy in Venezuela. But at the same time, unfortunately, he is propping up a dictatorship in Bolivia. Almagro, who is running for a new term…
ANP registers 631 attacks on the press
Ismael Luna reports for El Dia: Between 2010 and 2018 The document is part of one of the five civil society reports sent for the UN Universal Periodic Review In an average of 71 cases per year, the Monitoring and Surveillance Unit for Press Freedom and Expression in Bolivia from 2010 to 2018 has cataloged…
Bad politics 101: An illegal, illegitimate, unethical candidacy
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario: The life of modern societies evolves according to the norms, that is to say to the norms and laws, it is the state of law in which all citizens, without exception, are subject to compliance with the laws, but in the societies subject to regimes of authoritarian and dictatorial…
The Electoral Tribunal causes distrust
Editorial from El Diario, graph below from an earlier post: In the crisis of the political-governmental system that the country is going through, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and all the departmental apparatus of its dependence receive special notoriety, a crisis that is not the only one and is reflected in the Bolivian Police, in…
evo will not have 2/3 at the Congress due to corruption and drug trafficking
El Diario reports, pertaining excerpts follow: MAS insists on totalitarianism Núñez: Morales will not have 2/3 due to corruption and drug trafficking For the President – candidate and leader of the cocalero, winning the general elections is not a problem, now the objective is to triumph with more than two thirds to dominate all the…
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