Larissa Jimenez writes in Yale News, pictures from the internet: The Bolivian coup that wasn’t Bulletproof cars for fear you’ll be assaulted by armed criminals. Private escorts for fear you’ll be kidnapped. Empty supermarket shelves. Empty pharmacy shelves. Children starving, dying. Escasez (scarcity) becomes as familiar a phrase as arepa (and not the arepa at…
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Why did Evo Morales find such favour at the Vatican?
Fr Raymond de Souza reports for the Catholic Herald: Evo Morales, who fled to Mexico after resigning as president, may not be missed in Bolivia but his absence will be felt at the Vatican. One of the most curious aspects of the first Latin American pontificate is that Morales enjoyed the status he did. He…
Bolivia appoints Oscar Serrate as Ambassador to the USA
Excerpts from BBC News follows, photo from Pagina Siete: Bolivia crisis: Interim leader appoints first US envoy in 11 years Bolivia’s interim leader has appointed the country’s first US ambassador in 11 years, after vowing to overturn many of ex-President Evo Morales’ policies. The new ambassador, Walter Oscar Serrate Cuellar, used to be the country’s…
Bolivia deal for new elections offers chance of peace
Michael Stott, Latin America editor, reports for Financial Times: Bill annuls results of disputed vote last month in which exiled Evo Morales had claimed victory Jeanine Añez, Bolivian interim president, signs a law bill to hold new elections. The Bolivian Senate approved the day before the fresh parliamentary election, with former president Evo Morales ineligible…
How an Unknown Female Senator Came to Replace the Bolivian Strongman Evo Morales
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Cesar Del Castillo for The New York Times. Pictures at the bottom summarize our ordeal to get rid of autocrat Morales: Inside the scramble to fill the power vacuum and name a leader to guide the country out of political chaos. LA PAZ, Bolivia — A day after the downfall of Bolivia’s longest-serving president,…
New constitution – Nueva constitución
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, cartoon at the bottom also from El Diario: New constitution The October revolution, our October revolution, did not need a John Reed to write, as he did a hundred years ago in Moscow, “The ten days that shook the world,” because instead there were millions of testimonies that related…
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