By Desk, Inspired Traveler [I included pics, and inserted them along this article as they appeared in social media]: La Paz, 15 Dec (EFE) .- The controversy was served in Bolivia following the silletazo against former President Evo Morales at a meeting of his party, with reactions ranging from criticism, concern and threats of expulsion…
Tag: democracy in peril
Engañosos – masistas – Misleading
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Don’t be silly It turns out, from everything we hear and read, that Bolivians do not now know what a coup is. Experts in the field until recently, we tried to confuse young people of what it is like to overthrow a president through a coup. It happens that the masistas…
CIDH – Vergüenza/Shame – IACHR
Veronica Ormachea, Pagina Siete: Casimira Lema revictimized A year after journalist Casimira Lema had her house burned and everything they could robbed, she was re-victimized in a public hearing. She – who was barely allowed to speak – asked for justice to be done, but the assistants harassed her shouting: “Coup, liar, murderer” and for…
NO hubo golpe – There was NO coup
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The coup d’etat theory When Evo Morales fled and the 14-year-old regime collapsed like a house of cards, the vast majority of citizens were sure that we had achieved an irreversible result, and that based on this, the restitution of the rule of law was proportional to the powerful citizen movement…
Absurdos – masistas – Absurdities
Juan Cristobal Soruco, Pagina Siete4: The Stumbles of History The first days of the new MAS government show that its operators have not understood the messages of the citizens, and are doomed to take over the state administration, persecute their adversaries and pay homage to what seemed to be unnameable. The last wise up has…
La Corrupción NO prescribe – Corruption DOES NOT prescribe
Radio-Fides, El Dia: On the house arrest of Achacollo The plaintiff of the embezzlement of the former Indigenous fund warns defendants that crimes of corruption do not prescribe Sobre la detención domiciliaria de Achacollo Querellante del desfalco al exfondo Indígena advierte a procesados que delitos de corrupción no prescriben The plaintiff in the case of…
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