Pagina Siete reports: Former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga called to mobilize against the reelection of President Evo Morales, during the public hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which will be held from February 7 to 16 in the city of Sucre. “I am asking those of us who want to defend democracy,…
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The cynicism of Evo Morales’s reelection bid in Bolivia
Francisco Toro for The Washington Post: President Evo Morales of Bolivia is preparing to run for an unprecedented fourth term. (David Mercado/Reuters) Not much remains of the pink wave — the tide of left-wing governments that swept Latin America at the turn of the century. One way or another, country after country has turned back…
Bolivia faces 2019 marked by electoral uncertainty
Gabriela Orozco reports for RFI: Protester walks along with images of members of the Supreme Electoral Court during protest against the empowerment of Evo Morales for a new re-election, on December 31, 2018 in La Paz. Source: Reuters. Bolivia receives the new year in a hasty electoral environment, but also with political uncertainty ahead of…
Energy, gas, gasoline and water will remain subsidized [evo misleads and lies big time!]
El Diario reports, pertaining photo was captured from the internet: Three economists questioned official policy Vice President Álvaro García Linera said yesterday that the prices of gas, gasoline, water and basic services will not rise, as some opposition politicians and analysts have suggested. In an evaluation of the achievements of the Bolivian economy, he said…
Bolsonaro Invites Socialist Bolivian Leader Evo Morales to Inauguration
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo is such a drama queen!!! … you are not going to find another self-centered, egotistic individual like him! evo wants and likes desperately to travel, elsewhere, no matter the outcome or the cost! His delusional and irrational discourse against capitalism can wait … he knows we are facing the worst possible…
Tensions Roil Bolivia as Electoral Court Says Morales Can Run Again
Emily Achtenberg writes for NACLA: The Electoral Court’s recent decision to uphold Evo Morales’s fourth presidential bid has further polarized Bolivia, with the outcome of the electoral contest now far from certain. The TSE Ruling To the surprise of virtually no one, on December 4 Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) agreed to place President Evo…
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