Michael Stott, Latin America editor, reports for Financial Times: Bill annuls results of disputed vote last month in which exiled Evo Morales had claimed victory Jeanine Añez, Bolivian interim president, signs a law bill to hold new elections. The Bolivian Senate approved the day before the fresh parliamentary election, with former president Evo Morales ineligible…
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Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste [BT: great piece, accurate reading]
Ryan C. Berg reports for National Review, photo at the end from the internet: Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the…
How an Unknown Female Senator Came to Replace the Bolivian Strongman Evo Morales
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Cesar Del Castillo for The New York Times. Pictures at the bottom summarize our ordeal to get rid of autocrat Morales: Inside the scramble to fill the power vacuum and name a leader to guide the country out of political chaos. LA PAZ, Bolivia — A day after the downfall of Bolivia’s longest-serving president,…
New constitution – Nueva constitución
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, cartoon at the bottom also from El Diario: New constitution The October revolution, our October revolution, did not need a John Reed to write, as he did a hundred years ago in Moscow, “The ten days that shook the world,” because instead there were millions of testimonies that related…
Bolivia’s interim President Añez approves legislation to hold new elections
Sofia Sanchez reports for Euro News: Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Áñez has passed a law that limits presidents to two terms and appoints a new board that will set a date for a general election. Áñez pointed out her government’s commitment to celebrate “fair elections,” as opposed to the “fraud” of which she accuses Evo…
Bolivia approves new elections excluding Evo Morales
Deutsche Welle re Bolivia’s congress has approved a bill that seeks to quell weeks of unrest by allowing for new elections that exclude the country’s exiled ex-President Evo Morales. Street blockades have been lifted following talks. Bolivian lawmakers on Saturday approved a bill that allows for new elections and annuls the results of the October 20 election….
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