News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in honduras on Nov 27th, 2009
William Finnegan has an excellent article in The New Yorker about the Honduran coup. He calls it like he sees it, and it’s not pretty: repression, use of force, and the unscrupulous lust for power of the oligarchy in Honduras (not to mention the devious behind-the-scenes machinations of U.S. senator Jim DeMint, a Republican scumbag [...]
Posted in honduras on Nov 26th, 2009
“The Gaceta Oficial, (“Official Gazette”) of the Honduras coup regime is now freshly printed and has three new decrees and two orders restricting freedom of the press, the right to bear arms and officially strips Catholic Father Andres Tamayo of his Honduran citizenship, ordering him expelled from the country (the good Padre left for El [...]
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 round-up on Nov 18th, 2009
El Dude’s in fine form with all things Bolivian. Plus, Branko’s back in the news!!!
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 environment on Nov 17th, 2009
Nikolas Kozloff has a wonderful plea/screed about global climate change and the obstacles faced by environmentalists in the face of reflexive pro-capitalist thinking from the “Global North.” It combines the history of moral activism (Bertrand Russell in his later years, specifically) with contemporary conditions in the Bolivian Andes. A fun, and challenging (to idealism), read.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2009
Michael Ratner, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains how the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act can help bring justice to victims outside of the United States:
From “Civil Remedies for Gross Human Rights Violations.”
Over the last few years, many in the human rights community have focused on criminal remedies for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2009
Via Abiding in Bolivia, Bolivia Rising reports that the “U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida ruled yesterday that the claims for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings could move forward in two related U.S. cases against former Bolivian President Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (Sánchez de Lozada) and former Bolivian [...]
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 [...]
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