From a press release this afternoon:
The Pro-Santa Cruz Committee condemns and rejects the political persecution against Santa Cruz civic leaders.
Again the central government carries out state terrorism through the subservience of the justice system to the government.
Because of this, the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee condemns and rejects political persecutions and human-rights violations in Bolivia.
We sympathize with [...]
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Former head of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee Branko Marinkovic was formally accused by prosecutor Marcelo Soza of financing the alleged terrorist cell that was broken up by Bolivian police last year, according to El Día. The prosecutor is linking Marinkovic, Santa Cruz prefect Rubén Costas, and cattle rancher Guido Náyar in the plot to assassinate [...]
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Posted in indigenous peoples, medialuna on Jan 6th, 2010
The AP (via NYT) presents a story today about the Guarani in the Bolivian lowlands, who are finally getting lifted out of serfdom by Evo Morales’s policy of appropriating fallow or unproductive land–or land from fugitive landowners and rich American expats–and redistributing it to poor indigenous groups. Great read, great reporting. Kudos to the AP [...]
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Posted in honduras, medialuna, opposition on Aug 21st, 2009
The ongoing crisis in Honduras has emboldened opposition leaders in other Latin American countries, who, having failed to grasp power through democratic means, now consider extralegal measures. From the AP:
In Bolivia, opposition Gov. Ruben Costas called Zelaya’s ouster a logical reaction to “a process that follows the same book as Chavez, which only seeks constitutional [...]
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According to El Deber, the Santa Cruz daily.
Might former Pro-Santa Cruz Committee leader Branko Marinkovic be a little worried after he’s been fingered by Ignacio Villa Vargas–alias “El Viejo”–as the money man behind the alleged plot to assassinate Bolivian president Evo Morales? Doctors recommend that he “change his habits,” which, according to El Viejo, include [...]
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Blog From Bolivia has an analysis posted by Dan Beeton, from the Center for Economic and Policiy Research, of U.S. intervention and funding of violent opposition groups in Bolivia. This comes about after Beeton, the author of “The Fun House Mirror”–a critique of U.S. news reporting on Bolivia and the Morales administration–was confronted by Jim [...]
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Bina’s got news from ABI about a purported list of 100 “traitors” to autonomy medialuna that was circulated on April 12, two days before the confrontation in a Santa Cruz hotel that resulted in the deaths of three alleged foreign terrorists, and the capture of two more, who are accused of plotting to kill president [...]
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O.K., I am confused. From BBC News:
Chief among the suspected targets was Bolivian President Evo Morales, but Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera and Santa Cruz Governor Ruben Costas, a bitter opponent of Mr Morales, were also targeted, police said.
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Early reports from Bolivia’s leftist government suggested the plotters were linked in some way to opposition movements in [...]
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The identities of the alleged would-be assassins of Evo Morales come trickling in. (Bina, as usual, is on top of it.) One of them who was killed, one Eduardo Rózsa Flores, is now confirmed to be a Croatian (like Santa Cruz Civic Committee leader Branko Marinkovic). He also had a blog, mainly written in either [...]
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Intrepid journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky has a Time article up (already!–nice to see a mainstream U.S. publication so quick on the draw; but that can happen when the correspondent actually spends some time in the country) that nicely sums up what is know so far. Basically, in the early hours of Thursday morning, Bolivian police raided [...]
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