Editorial, El Deber: Luis Fernando Camacho Vaca spent his third night in Chonchocoro, the maximum security prison in La Paz. The appeal to preventive detention is still pending, but nothing good can be expected from the Bolivian justice system, clearly submissive to the instructions of the MAS government. In a virtual hearing, with a judge…
Tag: human rights
The kidnap of an elected official and gov’s despise on human rights! – ¡El secuestro de un funcionario electo y el desprecio del gobierno por los derechos humanos!
Reuters, ABC.net.au: Bolivian protesters burn cars, clash with police after governor arrested Protesters in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz, a relatively wealthy farming region, have attacked buildings, burned cars and blocked highways as part of a 24-hour strike on Friday following the arrest of the regional governor, a right-wing opposition leader. Key points: As night fell, protesters…
It is time for all Bolivians to defend democracy. | Es hora de que todos los bolivianos defendamos la democracia.
Carlos Toranzo, Página Siete: Authoritarian or dictatorial? Are the MAS leaders and militancies authoritarian or dictatorial? This is asked by many when trying to define the MAS and its governments. Some say that we live in a dictatorship; others express that we are facing an authoritarian government, but that we have not yet reached a…
Police forces repress residents of La Guardia | Fuerzas policiales reprimen a pobladores de La Guardia
El Diario: In the municipality of La Guardia there were moments of tension due to the gassing of the Police, in the confrontation between residents of that town who tried to intervene a blockade installed by social organizations that ask that the strike for the census be lifted. Hard day of violence in Santa Cruz…
Why are there encroachments? | ¿Por qué hay avasallamientos?
Luis Christian Rivas, El Diario: I maintain that there is encroachment and land trafficking because there is no legal certainty over them, because they are not individual private property, they belong to the State. Those lands belong to everyone and to no one, rather, they belong to the government of the day. The Political Constitution…
The entire Bolivia will pay in life the sentence against Jeanine Añez | Bolivia entera pagará en vida la condena contra Jeanine Añez
Loreto Correa, Página Siete: Rarely in contemporary history does one find situations like that of Jeanine Añez. As much as one looks for evidence that condemns it, the conclusion we reach is that it is a legal political montage without comparison. An embarrassment for all Bolivians. The decision to take her to trial, her imprisonment,…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 