News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, UJC, assassination plot, history, media, opposition, round-up, washington on May 21st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in media, opposition on May 16th, 2009
Weekly La Época spotlights the stories of two indigenous men in Bolivia, both of whom were victims of political violence–one, Ramiro Valle, who was attacked by a Santa Cruz land owner while he was heading to an INRA (National Institute of Agrarian Reform) meeting; the other, Marcial Fabricano, former head of CIBOD (the Indigenous Peoples [...]
Posted in media on Jan 24th, 2009
From the front page today’s Los Tiempos, a Cochabamba daily, come two images of rallies, one for the new Bolivian constitution, which will be voted on in a referendum this Sunday, and one against.
The picture on the left shows the crowd that turned out to support a “Yes” vote to the new constitution; the one [...]
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