By Romina Saavedra, Opinion: DEBATE BETWEEN THE PLURINATIONAL AND THE REPUBLICAN The fall of Tuto and the hangover of hatred: without the ‘Masista’ on stage, racism makes a feast After the runoff election, social media was flooded with messages against Indigenous people, peasants, and the left. Sociologist Luciana Jáuregui explains that a battle has opened…
Tag: reverse racism
Which Racism? | ¿Cuál racismo?
Editorial, El Dia: What a good occasion to talk about racism, so we can distinguish between what is social discrimination and what is institutional racism. Racism cannot be measured by insults, jokes, or comments among neighbors. While daily coexistence can be complicated when intolerance exists, the real problem arises from the State’s inability to guarantee…
Resentment and hatred of the VP – Resentimiento y odio del vice
Pagina Siete: Call me graduate “What are the graduates going to teach us? They are going to teach us to steal! We can teach them, they are very lazy”. With those words, Vice President David Choquehuanca has again influenced the division of Bolivians. Who are “they” and who are “we”, according to the VP’s speech?…
Discriminador y racista – Luchin – Discriminator and racist
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Blatant discrimination On Sunday, in Santa Cruz, the President of the State accused “the right” of exercising discrimination and racism against the most humble, while in the same city, in another place, dozens of indigenous people from the lowlands have been waiting for 54 days the attention of the Government to raise…
«Raza» y clase – “Race” and class
Andres Gomez, Pagina Siete: A few days ago, a lady in a blue scarf came up to blurt me out with an ideological stench that had betrayed my race by not supporting evismo. WTH! Why does this lady trigger her fanaticism at me if I don’t believe in races?, I said to myself and kept…
Bolivian indigenous leader who had denied the pandemic dies of covid-19
By Explica: The Bolivian indigenous leader Felipe « El Mallku » Quispe, a harsh critic of former President Evo Morales (2006-2019), died on Tuesday sick of Covid-19, refusing until the last moment to receive medical treatment against that disease whose existence he refused to admit, local media reported. « I have unfortunate news to confirm, that our brother Felipe…
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