Bolivia’s Evo Morales faces his toughest re-election battle yet

From The Economist: Morales’ hazard After 13 years of his rule, voters are getting restless “Bolivia is an insurrectionary nation,” declares Norma Berno, a tiny woman with piercing eyes at a “rally for democracy” on October 10th in La Paz, the administrative capital. In the early 2000s she demonstrated in favour of nationalising Bolivia’s large gas…

Comcipo maintains indefinite general strike in Potosí

Radio Fides reports: The meeting between the Government and the Potosinist Civic Committee (Comcipo) this morning failed to suspend the indefinite general strike in Potosí that today enters its eighth day. The president of the civic entity, Marco Antonio Pumari, told the Fides radio morning coffee program that “the indefinite general strike continues.” He explained…

Bolivian independent journalists 101, who are in peril under the worst ochlocracy

John Otis/CPJ Andes Correspondent reports to Committee to Protect Journalists: Forced out of jobs and sidelined, Bolivia’s independent journalists see their audience slipping away Amalia Pando was once a ubiquitous presence on Bolivian radio and TV, hosting some of the country’s most popular news and political commentary programs. At age 66, she’s still at it, but her…