News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in december election on Dec 5th, 2009
I’ve been traveling around so forgive the paucity of posts this week. Otto and the Dude had some fun earlier with Manfred Reyes Villa’s post-election plans: Apparently he’ll be inaugurated in Miami! Hah! Reyes knows he hasn’t a hope on Dec. 6, the date of Bolivia’s presidential election as the chart below shows (Evo’s even [...]
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 december election, opposition on Nov 24th, 2009
Bloomberg reports that Bolivian presidential candidate Manfred Reyes Villas’s home was “attacked” last night. (The “attack” appears to be only a few broken windows, according to La Razón.) Reyes Villas’s bodyguards detained two men, alleged to be supporters of MAS, Evo Morales’s party. While home invasions by overzealous activists have happened in the past, this [...]
Posted in december election, opposition, war on drugs on Nov 18th, 2009
Last year, before the recall referendum that threw Manfred Reyes Villa out as the prefect of Cochabamba department, I was sitting in a bar in the city of Cochabamba listening to a man spew “Morales is a drug dealer” nonsense. Well, now Reyes Villa wants to subsidize coca chewing in a obvious pander to the [...]
Posted in december election, opposition on Nov 14th, 2009
What do you do when your presidential candidate was tossed out of power last year, and your vice presidential candidate is in jail for orchestrating a massacre? You beat people up! Nice to see Santa Cruz living up to its reputation (the city, that is–the outlying region is pretty MAS-y).
Hey, a question for Bolivian politics [...]
Posted in december election on Nov 10th, 2009
December 6 will see the presidential and legislative elections in Bolivia. Current president Evo Morales is heavily favored to win reelection, with the opposition polling at less than 20 percent, compared with his current 47 percent support. The Democracy Center’s Blog from Bolivia has an invaluable guide to the candidates and the election process. It’s [...]
Posted in december election, opposition on Sep 29th, 2009
Evo Morales is set to easily win re-election this December for the presidency of Bolivia. IKN crunched the numbers and broke out Morales’s polling numbers in key constituencies. No surprise that Morales has a commanding 84 percent approval rating in the La Paz/El Alto area, his stronghold. Nor is it surprising that Morales has a [...]
Posted in december election, opposition on Sep 6th, 2009
The Democracy Center’s Blog from Bolivia has an analysis of the upcoming December presidential election in Bolivia, and raises some good points, among them why the fractured opposition to Morales will doom the anti-MAS crowd to failure:
There are many reasons why opponents of Morales would wish to have a unified campaign against him in the [...]
Posted in december election, opposition on Sep 3rd, 2009
As others have noted, yesterday La Razón reported that former Cochabamba prefect Manfred Reyes Villa–who was tossed out in 2008’s nationwide recall referendum–selected accused genocidaire Leopoldo Fernández as his running mate for the Bolivian presidential election later this year. Fernández, of course, is known for his alleged involvement in the Porvenir massacre last Sept. 11, [...]
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