Human Rights Council adopts outcomes of Universal Periodic Review of Bolivia, Fiji, and San Marino … The Human Rights Council met on March 18, 2015. And as it was expected, the Bolivian government managed to receive praises, even on indigenous affairs, forgetting the brutal police aggression on the TIPNIS people at Chaparina, and the ongoing repression…
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Political persecution, biased justice system, lack of human rights… yeah, all are happening in current Bolivia!
El Diario reports over the “quality” life that people living in Bolivia have to endure, under current “totalitarian” regime… Ombudsman calls for freedom The Ombudsman Rolando Villena, instructed yesterday that the Ombudsman’s institution, get involved through appropriate action, including the filing of an action of freedom, for the immediate cessation of imprisonment of journalist Carlos…
What is exactly ochlocracy? Why do I assert current Bolivian government is the worst of all?!
A cartoon from El Diario that portrays our reality: Here in this cartoon from 01/30/2015, the Foreign Affairs Minister is being questioned by the psychologist: “… Mr. Last Inca, what you have in your head is a toxic, confused disorder…” and up above the head of the politician it reads: “communism, christianism, socialism, terrorism, sionism,…
Bolivian Human Rights 101: Bolivia: Fix Laws That Undermine Rights
From Human Rights Watch: Bolivia: Fix Laws That Undermine Rights Recent Laws on Child Labor, Justice, Free Expression Need Revision DECEMBER 15, 2014 (New York) – Bolivia should amend several laws that undermine the rights to freedom of association and expression, due process guarantees, and children’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter…
TIPNIS aggravated again! They claim that the police gassed the Sécure indigenous people
ERBOL reports in Pagina Siete: THE FACT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT [08/22/2014] IN TRINIDAD They claim that the police gassed the Sécure indigenous people People linked to the government took the offices of the Sécure Subcentral from the TIPNIS. Police gassed last night a group of Indians who kept a vigil inside the offices of the…
Politics 101: … what is said and what ends up been done
Raul Penaranda writes in Pagina Siete: Distance between what is said and done Past Bolivian politicians were not a paragon of virtue, much less, and committed a series of contradictions between what they said and did. One offered a “moral revolution” and was involved in numerous scandals, another 500,000 jobs promised and fulfilled only 10%…
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