News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
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, [...]
Posted in honduras, medialuna, opposition on Aug 21st, 2009
The ongoing crisis in Honduras has emboldened opposition leaders in other Latin American countries, who, having failed to grasp power through democratic means, now consider extralegal measures. From the AP:
In Bolivia, opposition Gov. Ruben Costas called Zelaya’s ouster a logical reaction to “a process that follows the same book as Chavez, which only seeks constitutional [...]
Posted in garcía linera, opposition on Aug 11th, 2009
The Nation has an interview with Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera, in which he suggests that the right wing’s collapse in that country was due, in part, to the massacre in Pando department last year–what he calls the “point of bifurcation.”
How do you explain the current dramatic decline in the influence of the right [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, new constitution, opposition on Jul 28th, 2009
Via the the Lunatic Llama, the U.N.’s “State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009—Bolivia” report, which provides a good overview of not only the indigenous situation in Bolivia, but a sketch of the current Bolivian political situation. Of interest:
62 percent of Bolivians consider themselves indigenous, yet only 17 percent of members of Congress [...]
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, assassination plot, medialuna, opposition on May 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
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 assassination plot, opposition on May 7th, 2009
Bina has a post entitled “Circling the Wagons in Santa Cruz,” about the seemingly desperate attempts by the opposition in that city–who are directly implicated in the April 16 terrorist group–to cast themselves as victims. Central to their claim of victimhood is the denial that any terrorist group existed–an impossibility, as the groups perfidity is [...]
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, UJC, assassination plot, medialuna, opposition, washington on May 7th, 2009
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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