Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
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TIPNIS has the date and THE place set to start defense of its territory and our national park!
ANF news agency reports and is published in El Deber’s website: The 9th [protest] march will depart seven months after the Government of President Evo Morales restrain the indigenous people who participated in the 8th march, precisely in the town of Chaparina, a few kilometers of Yucumo. [the date is set for April 25, 2012]…
Bolivian government fits the ‘ineptocracy” mold
Andres Oppemheimer has written (for the Miami Herald) the following article and it fits nicely, unfortunately and embarrassedly enough our Bolivian reality: IN MY OPINION Latin Americans complain of “Ineptocracies” BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM A new definition of bad governments is spreading fast on the internet: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) — a system where the least capable…
Who is responsible for the decisions of the Bolivian government?
Humberto Vacaflor wrote this article, published in many Bolivian newspapers, the slink below is from El Deber’s: Signing “blind” President Evo Morales said he feared going to jail when he leaves the post for mistakes that could be committed now, although later said that, on the way to his cell, he would denounce [finger-point] those…
The Bolivian coca-ine reality show
During the last six years, the coca/cocaine industry has permeated our society, has changed our pacific lifestyle and threatens to become our worst nightmare: This is from El Diario, March 13, 2012: A full airplane is trying to lift-off on its way to Austria, it has the label “austere coca grower entourage” Current Bolivian president…
TIPNIS heroic and courageous struggle update. March 19, 2012
From Gundonovia, David Moreno reports for El Deber’s website: Unanimously, around 38 communities of the indigenous territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), spoke against the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road [through the TIPNIS] and the consultation stipulated by law 222. Criticisms of the ‘corregidores’ [local authorities] and some representatives of…
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