Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Dictators club Bolivians would have to be consulted about their preferences when the president attends a meeting in which such conflicting criteria will be presented, as happened at Celac. It was a disappointment and a shame that, at that meeting, on behalf of eleven million Bolivians, the president aligned himself with…
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Amparo Carvajal: Marcha Indígena – Indigenous March
Erbol, El Potosi: Amparo Carvajal in the Indigenous March: “These are the moments that make me strong.” “It is these historical moments that my history in Bolivia has that make me strong and grateful to life.” Thus, the president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB), Amparo Carvajal, described the importance for…
Respeto a CPE, DDHH y democracia – Respect for the Constitution, human rights and democracy
Angelica Siles, El Diario: Platforms are organized to demand respect for the CPE, human rights and democracy The Political Constitution of the State establishes in Article 1 that “Bolivia is constituted in a Social Unitary State of Plurinational Community Law, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural, decentralized and with autonomies. Bolivia is founded on plurality and…
Los sinuosos – The sinuous
Manfredo Kempff, Los Tiempos: Carlos Valverde tiene razón cuando dice —y escribe— que el MAS, en su afán de terminar con la vida de Jeanine Áñez, está errando el camino y la va a convertir en una heroína americana. Para muchos de los bolivianos la expresidente ya es una heroína, hoy mismo; por su coraje…
«Raza» y clase – “Race” and class
Andres Gomez, Pagina Siete: A few days ago, a lady in a blue scarf came up to blurt me out with an ideological stench that had betrayed my race by not supporting evismo. WTH! Why does this lady trigger her fanaticism at me if I don’t believe in races?, I said to myself and kept…
10 años después – TIPNIS – 10 years later
Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Ten years ago the image of Evo Morales and the Government of the Movement for Socialism enjoyed respect inside and outside of Bolivia. The presidency of a descendant of indigenous peoples from Latin America, the discourse on the rights of peoples, concern for the poor, the gaze towards Mother Earth Pachamama,…
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