ANF reports in El Diario: Leopoldo Fernández: “They want me guilty” Almost two years of house arrest, the former prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández, yesterday [11/23/2014] declared that “the government wants me guilty for the Porvenir case, so that the truth of the situation on the clashes that took the lives of 13 people and dozens…
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“thanks” to current Bolivian gov, a thousand Bolivians seek refuge in Brazil
El Deber reports on one of the most disgusting characteristics of the coca-grower’s presidency: REFUGEE DAY Conare reveals that 1,000 Bolivians seek refuge in Brazil Most of those are related to the Porvenir case. Bolivia gave shelter to 850 people. The President of Conare Bolivia, César Siles said that in Brazil there are 1,000 applications…
Worst Bolivia-Brazil diplomatic/commercial relations… ever!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Bolivia-Brasil, asylees in the freezer A year ago, relations with Brazil are reduced to the sale of natural gas. And Bolivian political refugees arriving in the country. Besides the 500 Pando refugees who fled when the department was taken by force, there is now in that country, as refugees,…
Why Brazil “allows” current Bolivian gov bravado?
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Dilma, Evo, hatreds and OAS On May 1, 2006, Dilma Rousseff was the Minister of Energy of Lula da Silva and received a bucket of cold water from the spectacle of ‘nationalization’ offered by the new Government of Evo Morales in the San Alberto field. She came to Bolivia…
Are human rights respected in Bolivia?
Carlos Toranzo Roca writes in Pagina Siete: Human rights are for all of us It is hard to believe that in a left-wing regime, as the one that governs us, one of the issues of most concern to people is the violation of human rights. Who had human rights during the dictatorship of Barrientos in…
UPDATE on Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto’s right for political asylum! Sep/2012
This is an update on Senator’s Roger Pinto whereabouts: Pagina Siete reports: Government does not extend laissez-passer Pinto complies 100 days isolated and two vigils were installed Last night [9/3/12] ACTS, a vigil was held in plaza Bolivia and another in the Legislative Assembly. The Senator by national convergence (CN) Roger Pinto has reached 100…
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