El Diario: Dialogue must be sincere and with all sectors After the Government’s call to the guild merchants for a dialogue on Saturday, the governor of Santa Cruz, Fernando Camacho, asked the government authorities that this dialogue be transparent and sincere and that it include all sectors that ask for the repeal of Law 1386,…
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Fracasó la política – Politics failed
Editorial, El Deber: Bolivia, the failure of politics If the Government of Luis Arce believes that by ignoring, neglecting or repressing the protest in Santa Cruz, and now also in Potosí, it is going to overcome the most serious crisis of its administration, it is that it does not understand politics or learn from the…
Vivanco urges Arce to guarantee the right to peaceful protest in Bolivia
EFE, Market Research Telecast [para español, aqui]: La Paz, Nov 10 (EFE) .- The director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, urged the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, to “ensure” the right to peaceful protest after the strong clashes registered in the three days of the indefinite strike in the…
Gobierno indolente, corrupto y sanguinario – Indolent, corrupt and bloodthirsty government
Guider Arancibia, El Deber: Hooded men who attacked roadblocks were in vehicles seized from drug trafficking Two of the three pick-up tracks were identified by police. One of them was seized in the operation that intervened in the luxurious Imperial events room. The law establishes that these assets must be given to social welfare entities….
Bolivia unions go on strike as political tensions rise
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Bolivia’s transport and retail unions launched an indefinite strike on Monday to protest a law against so-called “illicit profits” and terrorist financing that critics allege is a government ruse to seize private property. Opposition civil and political groups joined the strike, accusing the socialist government of…
Las razones del paro – The reasons for the strike
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Civics, merchants, transporters and other sectors are starting an indefinite general strike today. It is the repetition, expanded, of what happened a month ago and that led the Government to withdraw from the Senate its bill against the Legitimation of Illicit Profits. In the case of the regulation opposed by various sectors…
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