By Brújula Digital: They Denounce That Ponchos Rojos Attacked a Minibus Transporting Children With Down Syndrome The children were returning to their therapy sessions in a school vehicle when the incident occurred, according to Fundación PRO 21 and Centro Lápiz en Mano. Ponchos Rojos and other demonstrators during Monday’s unrest in downtown La Paz/APG Fundación…
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Racism Unmasked After the Runoff | Racismo sin máscara tras el balotaje
By Romina Saavedra, Opinion: DEBATE BETWEEN THE PLURINATIONAL AND THE REPUBLICAN The fall of Tuto and the hangover of hatred: without the ‘Masista’ on stage, racism makes a feast After the runoff election, social media was flooded with messages against Indigenous people, peasants, and the left. Sociologist Luciana Jáuregui explains that a battle has opened…
Masismo’s Toxic Hatred | Odio malsano masista
Editorial, El Dia: The Machinery of Hatred During Evo Morales’ 14-year reign, Chapare became the darling of his regime. The coca grower dreamed of turning the Cochabamba tropics into a rival of Santa Cruz as the engine of Bolivia’s economy. He built airports, factories, massive industrial plants, roads, basic services everywhere, sports arenas, and all…
Is This the End of an Era? | ¿Final de ciclo?
By Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, El Deber: In an unlikely turn of events, the presidential spokesperson for Luis Arce Catacora has announced, following a detailed analysis, the end of the cycle of the so-called “Process of Change” that gave rise to the Plurinational State and its “communitarian model”. In essence, Jorge Richter has certified the failure of…
Resentment and hatred of the VP – Resentimiento y odio del vice
Pagina Siete: Call me graduate “What are the graduates going to teach us? They are going to teach us to steal! We can teach them, they are very lazy”. With those words, Vice President David Choquehuanca has again influenced the division of Bolivians. Who are “they” and who are “we”, according to the VP’s speech?…
Bolivian indigenous leader who had denied the pandemic dies of covid-19
By Explica: The Bolivian indigenous leader Felipe « El Mallku » Quispe, a harsh critic of former President Evo Morales (2006-2019), died on Tuesday sick of Covid-19, refusing until the last moment to receive medical treatment against that disease whose existence he refused to admit, local media reported. « I have unfortunate news to confirm, that our brother Felipe…
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