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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The invaluable Bolivia Information Forum shipped October’s news briefing today. There are a couple of items from it that are interesting (along with another item from elsewhere):
President Evo Morales has disbanded the Unit for Tactical Resolution for Crisis (UTARC), a specially trained police force that was involved in the Santa Cruz terror-cell take-down earlier this [...]
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The Indigenous Confederation of the Chaco, East, and Bolivian Amazon (CIDOP) has complained to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations that Luis Nuñez, president of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee (the main opposition business group), is claiming to represent the indigenous through his “Human Rights Council.” CIDOP alleges that Nuñez is engaging in an [...]
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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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El Gaviero has just flown back to New York City, and boy is he tired. Unfortunately for him, the Bolivian news cycle never stops, and he now finds himself playing catch-up! Luckily for you all, other bloggers never rest. So here’s a round-up on the news from Bolivia:
Otto’s got a great translation of a damning [...]
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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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From ABI, reports of a link between Cotas, the Santa Cruz telephone company, and Eduardo Rózsa Flores, the alleged terror-cell leader who was killed last week. Apparently Flores, using the name Jorge Hurtado Flores, was contracted by Cotas to give Internet technical assistance. He thereby gained access to a kiosk at the Feria Exposición de [...]
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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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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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