Andrés Gómez, Página Siete: Luis’ dilemma From the first day of his inauguration, the cabinet of President Luis Arce ruled for Evo Morales. Then to the hardest core of his electorate. However, what a paradox! Morales is not satisfied with the cabinet that governed for him. He wants more persecuted, more imprisoned, more unhappy Bolivian…
Tag: democracy in peril
Political use of justice – Bolivia – Uso político de la justicia
Human Rights Watch observes 16 years of political use of justice in Bolivia [Use this link to read the full World Report 2022 pertaining Bolivia, excerpt follows on Justice] Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, HRW: Political interference has plagued Bolivia’s justice system for years. The Jeanine Áñez government (November 2019-2020) pursued baseless charges against political opponents….
Bolivian political opposition – La oposición política boliviana
Renzo Abruzzese, PaginaSiete: Opposition parliamentarians In one thing the MAS has been more than efficient, in installing in the public perception the image of an inefficient, maladjusted, inoperative, inept opposition; any negative and denigrating qualifier fits what the ruling party wants to build as the image of the opposition deputies and senators. Under the fascist…
Endless tensions – Tensiones sin fin
Editorial, Los Tiempos: In recent months we have experienced an environment marked by political tensions and social mobilizations. Tensions that occurred for various reasons and that the proximity of the end-of-year festivities seemed to mitigate, until the scandal of ghost items broke out in the Santa Cruz Mayor’s Office, quickly used for partisan purposes. It…
Dios salve a nuestra querida Bolivia – God save our beloved Bolivia
Recuperemos nuestras libertades democráticas y restituyamos la civilidad entre nosotros, ya es tiempo de convivir pacíficamente y construir un futuro juntos. Dios quiera tengamos mejores días el 2022 Let’s recover our democratic freedoms and restore civility among us, it is time to live together peacefully and build a future together. God grant we have better…
Persecución política – MAS – Political persecution
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Pumari, a political prisoner Marco Antonio Pumari, the former president of the Potosí Civic Committee (Comcipo) who in 2019 was one of the main actors in the mobilizations that led to the resignation of the presidency of Evo Morales, must remain in prison until June 2022, accused of obstructing a electoral process…
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