El Diario reports: Cowardly aggression of drivers in La Paz • Fejuve ensures that will not allow increase in tariffs to passengers The drivers of public transport yesterday [01/11/2016] staged riots in the vicinity of the Simon Bolivar Avenue, near Hernando Siles Stadium, when they tried to force drivers to charge fares with an increase…
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Bolivian gov flunked! There is no leadership, nor respect: Dozens arrested as Bolivia miners clash with police
Aljazeera reports: Dozens arrested as Bolivia miners clash with police Officers arrest 44 protesters in the capital, as striking miners from Potosi demand government invest in infrastructure. [you can watch the video of this photo by using this link] Hundreds of miners from a strike-paralysed city in Bolivia’s highlands have battled police in the capital…
Evo cumple! Evo delivers! Bolivia: the New Hub for Drug Trafficking in South America
From [a sad but true description of how Bolivia has changed… if you want to read this revealing article in Spanish, please use this link] Bolivia: the New Hub for Drug Trafficking in South America Transnational organized crime likes opportunities and little resistance. Bolivia currently provides both and finds itself at the heart of a…
Bolivia needs to stop anarchical encroachments!
Marcelo Campos reports for El Dia: The affected marched to the prosecutor’s office They ask to enforce the law against encroachments Manifestation. Judge released two alleged ringleaders of the ‘encroachers’. CADEPIA calls to evict encroachers of 10 hectares. The Association of Productive Agricultural Premises (ASPA) and the Departmental Chamber of Small Industry and Handicrafts (CADEPIA),…
Bolivia 101: Human Rights Practices for 2013
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 Bolivia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bolivia is a constitutional, multi-party republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. In December 2009, in a process deemed free and fair by international observers, citizens re-elected as president Evo Morales Ayma, leader of the…
Who won the gas war?
Humberto Vacaflor describes the aftermath of the so called “gas war” which, day by day, as we know more, demonstrates its violent motives which were no other to take over power, to throw a democratically elected government… and it only reflects why this and Venezuela governments fit under the ochlocracy category! Humberto Vacaflor from Siglo…
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