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 round-up, stupid, stupid estadounidenses on May 15th, 2009
Slavery is alive and well in Santa Cruz.
[Teresa Barrio's] hamlet of 13 Guarani families - all workers on the plantations near the town of Camiri in Alto Parapeti region in the eastern province of Santa Cruz - built a school but ranchers destroyed it, she says.
“They didn’t want us to learn, they want things to [...]
Posted in round-up on May 13th, 2009
Remember that terrorist cell in Santa Cruz–the one with murky connections to the ultra-right-wing Argentine carapintada group? An Argentine daily reports that there were 11 more of the painted faces in Beni department (also an oppo area, natch), according to ABI. These guys were also apparently involved at some point in the Balkan conflict in [...]
Posted in round-up on Apr 25th, 2009
To tide you over this weekend (unless, of course, something big breaks).
The Bolivian police have raided a Chabad house in Rurrenabaque (from what I gather, the Chabad are a messianic offshoot of Judaism, who believe their savior has already visited us mortals–sounds like some other religion I’ve heard about…. Jesus, I just can’t put my [...]
Posted in round-up on Jan 28th, 2009
The front page of El Deber, Santa Cruz’s main daily, bemoans the fact that “the conciliatory tone of Sunday night’s triumphal presidential message changed yesterday. Evo Morales proclaimed his new victory and again attacked the opposition, accusing them of ’selling the country.’” But at least he isn’t collecting money to assassinate the heads of said [...]
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