Editorial, Los Tiempos: The arrest, indictment and preventive detention for six months, in the San Pedro prison, La Paz, of the police colonel investigated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and who was national chief anti-drug trafficking in the last nine months of the Morales government could suggest that the national justice system acts…
Tag: political persecution
A weeping coward and also undesirable – Un cobarde llorón y además indeseable
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: A very long whimper Two years and months have passed since coca grower Morales resigned from the presidency and fled the country, but the whining remains intact, from himself and his judicial team paid for revenge. The attorney general continues to order trials against government officials who had to take over…
Who governs? – Bolivia – ¿Quien gobierna?
Andrés Gómez, Página Siete: Luis’ dilemma From the first day of his inauguration, the cabinet of President Luis Arce ruled for Evo Morales. Then to the hardest core of his electorate. However, what a paradox! Morales is not satisfied with the cabinet that governed for him. He wants more persecuted, more imprisoned, more unhappy Bolivian…
Political use of justice – Bolivia – Uso político de la justicia
Human Rights Watch observes 16 years of political use of justice in Bolivia [Use this link to read the full World Report 2022 pertaining Bolivia, excerpt follows on Justice] Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, HRW: Political interference has plagued Bolivia’s justice system for years. The Jeanine Áñez government (November 2019-2020) pursued baseless charges against political opponents….
Arce: Does he deserve to be president and can he govern? – ¿Merece ser presidente y puede gobernar?
Arce, under masista pressure Fourteen months after having inaugurated his mandate, the President of the State seems to be in a particularly delicate moment, as he must find the balance between the pressures of his party, the imminent urgencies of a management that is shaping up to be complicated, especially on the economic issue. and…
Bolivian political opposition – La oposición política boliviana
Renzo Abruzzese, PaginaSiete: Opposition parliamentarians In one thing the MAS has been more than efficient, in installing in the public perception the image of an inefficient, maladjusted, inoperative, inept opposition; any negative and denigrating qualifier fits what the ruling party wants to build as the image of the opposition deputies and senators. Under the fascist…
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