Andres Gomez, Página Siete: Justice? No it’s revenge –Did someone do justice to me and other people? On the contrary, I even lost my job– a person told me who was a victim of violence promoted by the elite of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in November 2019. Hours later I learned that prosecutors and…
Tag: human rights
Bolivia: Amnesty Decree Opens the Door to Impunity – Decreto de amnistía permite la impunidad
Human Rights Watch, UN: Appears Designed to Favor Government Supporters (Washington, DC, March 11, 2021) – A presidential decree approved by Bolivia’s Congress in February 2021 opens the door to impunity for serious crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The decree provides a blanket amnesty to people prosecuted during the previous government for crimes related to…
Víctimas rechazan amnistía y creen que genera impunidad – Victims reject amnesty and believe it generates impunity
Pagina Siete: Those affected by the violence prior to November 12, 2019 see little progress in the investigations and point out that the norm favors the accused. The victims of the acts of violence, prior to November 12, 2019, rejected the presidential decree of amnesty and pardon for political persecution and humanitarian reasons. They expressed…
Salud en peligro – Health in peril
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Anti-constitutional law The constitutionality of the laws seems to be outside the concerns of the Executive and the Legislature. This is evidenced in some of the provisions of the draft Sanitary Emergency Law, presented by the Government to the Assembly on Monday, and approved on Friday by the MAS bench in the…
¿Ocultando su incapacidad? – Hiding their helplessness?
Página Siete: An almost inaccessible government It was never an open or transparent government; in fact, until now, President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca have not held a press conference to answer questions from journalists. But, day that passes, the situation worsens because its officials adopt the same ostrich strategy and leave the…
Nadia Cruz: No apta | Not suitable
ANF, Los Tiempos: Carvajal on Cruz’s application to the IACHR: She is not suitable, she has been biased with the MAS The president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Amparo Carvajal, referred to the nomination of the interim ombudsman, Nadia Cruz, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and added…
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