The wear of Arce in his first year of government The circumstances in which Luis Arce meets the first year of his government do not seem to be like a celebration. No, because the mobilization that -against Law 1386 on the National Strategy to Fight the Legitimation of Illicit Profits- begins the same day of…
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Bolivian journalists abducted, assaulted by armed men while covering land dispute
CPJ.org: Bogotá, November 4, 2021 – Bolivian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the abduction and assault of six journalists by a group of armed men and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On October 28, seven reporters, photographers, and camera operators for several Bolivian media…
World’s highest ski resort a Bolivian memory
PhysOrg (para leer en español, use el link de abajo): Bernardo Guarachi’s eyes light up as he reminisces about the glory days of Chacaltaya—once the highest ski resort in the world but now a crumbling relic to climate change in the Bolivian Andes. “Today, it’s a cemetery,” said Guarachi, pointing to the rusted poles and…
Avasalladores son una mafia, generan inseguridad ciudadana – Bullies are a mafia, they generate public insecurity
El Diario: In the name of poverty, they enter municipal sites. These groups exert violence as a method of intimidation “The bullies are the ones who destroy, generate public insecurity, there are armed groups, here (La Paz) there are mafia groups that intimidate the neighbors, threaten them, beat them, the bullies have become a national…
Paro indefinido – Nov 8 – Indefinite strike
Ivan A Paredes, El Deber: An indefinite strike is announced as of November 8; the MAS reproaches Trade unionists, transporters and doctors give the government until November 7 to repeal Law 1386. The ruling party says that the strike “will be a failure.” The measure would start from November 8 The unionists and other sectors…
Masismo sin moral – Masismo without morals
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: When there is no moral Bolivia is not only experiencing a crisis of excess patronage and state pre-bendanism, what we are looking at at present is deeper than that, it is about the moral degradation of power due to the absence of ethics, due to the total loss of the values…
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