Bolivia’s warring parties strike deal for new elections to end deadly unrest

Reuters reports for France 24: Bolivia’s interim government and lawmakers from the party of unseated leader Evo Morales struck a deal late on Thursday to pursue new elections, potentially helping resolve the South American country’s political crisis. In a late night session of the Bolivian Senate, the chamber’s President, a member of Morales’ Movement for…

Vargas Llosa and his vision of Bolivia

A good Editorial from El Dia: Vargas Llosa and his vision of Bolivia The first disappointed with Vargas Llosa’s visit should be the Government of Evo Morales, because despite the enormous expectations that had in this regard, the writer made very few criticisms to the Bolivian regime, and only talked about populism, who considered being…

Bolivian authoritarian regime now intends to control environmental NGOs

From El Diario: MAS aims to control ‘environmental” NGOs The Senator of the movement toward socialism (MAS), Eugenio Rojas, reported yesterday that the Government does not rule out the control of the “environmental” non governmental organizations (NGOs)”, since they want to “grab” of the national reserves, the territories of indigenous peoples of the lowlands and…

An intolerant, unilateral, demagogue Bolivian gov

ANF reports on current gov’s intolerance due to its totalitarian style… GOVERNMENT EXPELLED THE DANISH NGO “IBIS” FROM BOLIVIA IBIS worked in recent years with organizations such as the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of the Qullasuyu (Conamaq) and the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (Cidob), whose members would have been RECEIVING funding and…

Libera Association presents academic journal which encourages critical thinking

From PIEB, Research About Bolivia Digital Newspaper: Libera Association presents academic journal which encourages critical thinking PIEB Digital Newspaper • 02-01-2013 The Libera [Set-Free] Association presents the first issue of the academic journal “set free: the power of ideas” that impetus is given to critical thinking and aims to encourage debate about the role of…