El Diario reports: Sucre Activists followed the members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights who were in the Plaza 25 de Mayo The new president of the entity, the Panamanian Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, said that “it is an expression of civil society and that they are willing to listen to them. The appointment…
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So Much Gas, So Few Allies Spells Trouble in Populist Nation [evo, you’re done!]
Laura Millan Lombrana, Jonathan Gilbert, and Sabrina Valle report for Bloomberg: South America’s only successful populist government has triumphed largely thanks to the natural gas it exports to its neighbors. But that may soon be changing. Contracts with Bolivia’s biggest customers — Brazil and Argentina — are in the process of being renegotiated at a time when…
US senators urge Evo not to be re-elected
EFE/Washington reports via Pagina Siete: “It is important that all parties respect the Constitution of Bolivia,” said Senator Ted Cruz. A bipartisan group of senators from the United States yesterday [02/02/2019] presented a legislative resolution calling on Bolivian President Evo Morales to respect the limits of presidential terms and not run for the presidential elections…
Morales and García must resign their candidacy
El Diario reports: Opponents Deputy Rafael Quispe burned the Mas flag. After the results of the primary elections where the MAS only had a third of the participation of its militants, several opponents asked Evo Morales and Alvaro Garcia to resign to be candidates for the general elections of October 2019. The senator of Democratic…
The MAS suffered a setback, could not bury the 21F
Pagina Siete reports: Analysts: The experts see that the primaries put “in doubt the electoral strength of the MAS” and that they generated “a boomerang effect” against the masismo. Political analysts considered that the results of the primaries are a “setback” for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), and that that party failed in its attempt…
A hard cabinet for the prorogation [of autocrat evo]
An excellent Editorial from Pagina Siete: EDITORIAL Evo Morales knows that he will have to face one of the most difficult years of his government. A year in which he intends to ensure his continuity in power, despite the fact that this implies the violation of the Political Constitution of the State. To achieve that…
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