News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in december election, stupid on Nov 25th, 2009
The Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has a truly detestable Op-Ed by serial liar Mary Anastasia O’Grady which bemoans the “end of Bolivian democracy.” O’Grady’s factually challenged screed fails on many levels, one being her deification of disgraced former Bolivian president Gonzalo “Goni the Gringo” Sánchez de Lozada (presently wanted in Bolivia for ordering the massacre [...]
Posted in stupid on Aug 27th, 2009
Upside Down World has a rejoinder to Fox News’ breathless fear-mongering about Islamic terror cells in Evolandia, based on dubious CIA reports. Devin Beaulieu, the writer of the report, does what any reporter worth his salt does: Namely, he speaks with the people involved, in this case Mahmud Amer Abusharar, the head of Santa Cruz’s [...]
Posted in round-up, stupid, stupid estadounidenses on May 15th, 2009
Slavery is alive and well in Santa Cruz.
[Teresa Barrio's] hamlet of 13 Guarani families - all workers on the plantations near the town of Camiri in Alto Parapeti region in the eastern province of Santa Cruz - built a school but ranchers destroyed it, she says.
“They didn’t want us to learn, they want things to [...]
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, UJC, assassination plot, medialuna, opposition, stupid on Apr 18th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in new constitution, stupid on Mar 14th, 2009
Otto at Inca Kola News condemns the recent seizure of former V.P. Cardenas’s home and the assault of his wife and kid. So did I, yesterday, but perhaps not forcefully enough. Otto says:
The episode reminds me that Bolivia’s democracy is still in its infancy. There’s a whole section of its population that have never been [...]
First up, the stupid: From Bellum, an unknown author takes aim at Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s decisions to expel certain U.S. officers accused of being in cahoots with the C.I.A. While El Gaviero knows that it is very rare for the C.I.A. to involve itself in left-leaning countries with the intent of bring the ruling party [...]
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