Tag: democracy in peril

Current Bolivia vice-president’s: struggle or simple guilt regarding NGOs?

We see in the cartoon by El Dia, January 11, 2012, current vice-president’s doing his best… shooting himself on the foot!! The title above reads: “Government versus NGOs…” Current vice-president published recently a “book,” well not a book under international standards, it is a Bolivian one, his’ is less than 170 pages… In any case…

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Bolivia’s president communicational style…

This cartoon is self-evident, it portrays how current president feels about his audience and “his wisdom”… need say no more… that is the way things are going on in Bolivian government’s politics. It is not only related to the “anti march” that refers to the groups who are trying to push for the road to…

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TIPNIS under siege, January 2012

This cartoon is from El Diario, January 5, 2012. It shows an interview on the current “walk” by those people who want the road to cross over the TIPNIS. People who are no longer advocating the road between Beni and Cochabamba but to cross the TIPNIS! The press asks: “…Mr. Cacique (chief, boss)! tell us,…

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What will the new Year’s bring to Bolivia?

Apparently not much, and its hesitant to land in La Paz, Bolivia… suggests the El Diario cartoon that appeared January 1, 2012. Given all the pending issues/problems like salary increases, fuel subsidies, smuggling, cocaine trafficking, illegal settlements, lack of public safety, marches, blockades, strikes in general and the TIPNIS; will all of them more likely…

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Can some humans learn from earlier mistakes?

This cartoon is from El Diario, December 29, 2011. It shows current Bolivian president trying to swim against the current of blockades that will more likely restart around mid January 2012. It is assumed that humans, unlike other species, learn, adapt, evolve when confronted with reality. This political party in power is either a very slow…

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