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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Young criticizes a masista public servant for politicizing education
El Diario reports: A high school female student yesterday questioned the departmental assembly member of MAS, Fabiola Almanza [photo], for politicizing education by suggesting that everyone can be with President Evo Morales and for wanting all young people to be “masistas.” Other students rejected that official authorities campaign to support the MAS and seek to…
Freedom of the Press under peril in Bolivia!
It is a total shame that prestigious journalists like Amalia Pando, Raul Penaranda, Carlos Valverde, Andres Gomez, Humberto Vacaflor had suffered political persecution, and their right to work had been curtailed by the coca caudillo government! Bolivia is experiencing political persecution, blackmail and extortion! The above is the opinion of Bolivian Thoughts. El Diario reports:…
IAPA Rejects Free Official Advertising Imposed By Bolivian Government
The Inter American Press Association reports: IAPA Rejects Free Official Advertising Imposed By Bolivian Government MIAMI, Florida (January 31, 2018)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed concern at the issuing of a recent official decree by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales that requires all news media to distribute government messages free of charge, without distinguishing…
Bolivia wants and will fight for free social networks despite the egocentric masista!
Pagina Siete reports: IN THE SIGHTS Free social networks Social networks are an important area of freedom in Bolivia, so the idea of MAS deputy Julio Huaraya to regulate its operation has caused alert. For the sake of democracy, of the country and of the MAS itself, a day after the announcement, the pro-government bloc…
‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded.
Jesse Dougherty writes for The Washington Post: ‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded. The red brake lights on the cars ahead all lit up, the rush-hour traffic slowly rolled to a halt and Nicolle Uria, tightly gripping a Gatorade water bottle in one hand…
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