Reuters reports for VoA: OAS Final Report: Bolivia Election Rigging in Favor of Morales ‘Overwhelming’ SANTIAGO, CHILE – An Americas regional forum on Wednesday published details of “deliberate” and “malicious” steps to rig Bolivia’s October election in favor of then President Evo Morales, who has resigned and left the Andean nation in political crisis. A…
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How Bolivia’s Mighty Morales Has Fallen
Raul Peñaranda writes for NPR News: Raúl Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist, former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and author of a book on former President Evo Morales’ efforts to control the media in Bolivia. Peñaranda is the editor of the news site Brújula Digital. He was the most important Bolivian leader of the…
Camacho, a leader in Bolivian protests, to seek presidency
AFP reports for Yahoo News: La Paz (AFP) – Luis Fernando Camacho, a leading force behind the ouster of Bolivian president Evo Morales, on Saturday announced his own plans to seek the presidency. In a statement, the 40-year-old Camacho formally declared his candidacy for the “next national elections,” which have yet to be scheduled. Camacho,…
The Bolivian coup that wasn’t
Larissa Jimenez writes in Yale News, pictures from the internet: The Bolivian coup that wasn’t Bulletproof cars for fear you’ll be assaulted by armed criminals. Private escorts for fear you’ll be kidnapped. Empty supermarket shelves. Empty pharmacy shelves. Children starving, dying. Escasez (scarcity) becomes as familiar a phrase as arepa (and not the arepa at…
Dispelling myths about the battle for democracy in Bolivia
Joseph M. Humire writes in The Hill, photo from the internet: After years of watching embattled Nicolás Maduro remain in power in Venezuela, many international observers did not expect Evo Morales to resign as president of Bolivia. But after massive electoral fraud, from top to bottom, Morales’s credibility in the country evaporated. To save whatever legitimacy he…
Bolivia’s farmers criticize Morales, fight centralization
AFP reports fro France 24: Montero (Bolivia) (AFP) Bolivian dairy farmer Jose Roca’s blue eyes glow with anger when he talks about indigenous ex-president Evo Morales and his supporters. “They call us racists, separatists, all the bad adjectives are for us,” he says. With his 500 cows and 250 acres of land, Roca is a…
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