By Horacio Poppe, Facebook: It’s Sunday at 9 in the morning. My comrade and I are at the gate of Chonchocoro, facing that immense penitentiary. The guard approaches us and asks for our identification to verify if we’re on the guest list. After checking on a computer, he gives us the go-ahead and asks us…
Tag: democracy in peril
Families say those detained in Bolivia failed coup were tricked. President says it’s not his problem | Familias dicen que los detenidos en Bolivia por intento de golpe fallido fueron engañados. El presidente dice que no es su problema
By Megan Janetsky and Paola Flores, Associated Press, The Canadian Press, Yahoo News: Families say those detained in Bolivia failed coup were tricked. President says it’s not his problem LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death threats came rolling in shortly after Gimena Silva’s husband was detained on accusations that he took part in a failed…
Land Invaders Seize Northern Integrated Properties Again | Avasalladores toman otra vez predios del Norte Integrado
El Diario: Two weeks before the maize harvest, a violent mob once again invaded the Santa Rita, Santa Rita C, and Laguna properties in the municipality of El Puente, in the Northern Integrated region of Santa Cruz. This occurred only four hours after the police protection, installed by the government on July 10, was withdrawn,…
Politics and Values | Política y valores
By Renzo Abruzzese, El Deber: What was the trajectory of social and political disaster in Bolivia? A controversial and complicated question, but we could attempt an answer. Since the mid-20th century, Bolivia’s political and social trajectory largely aligned with the phenomena that shook, for better or worse, the entirety of Latin American countries. We could…
We need a Bolivia for decent people | Necesitamos una Bolivia para la gente decente
By Carlos Hugo Molina, El Deber: Joan Manuel Serrat set to music the poem by Antonio Machado, “Españolito”: “There is already a Spaniard who wants to live and begins to live / between a Spain that dies and another Spain that yawns. / Little Spaniard coming into the world, God save you. / One of…
evo 101: The Proverbial Cowardice of Evo | La proverbial cobardía de Evo
By Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Brujula DIgital: The cowardice of Evo Morales is well known. In 2019, he sought help from the Mexican government to escape Bolivia immediately after swiftly ousting the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, nullifying the general elections, and resigning as president of Bolivia. He later declared it was a “coup”… A meticulous chronology suggests…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 