Source: Blog from Bolivia
Two weeks from today Bolivia will vote in a historic election, with the political heads of the President, Vice-President, and eight of the nation’s nine governors on the line.
Or maybe it will just be another Sunday.
Such is the uncertain world of Bolivian politics these days.
The […]
Federico Fuentes, July 26
Tensions and uncertainties continue to rise as what some are calling a bout of “referendumitis” sweeps through Bolivia.
On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation’s capital — the sole magistrate remaining […]
Statement by For All Bolivia
Bolivian men and women from the east and west, the countryside and city, who have remained invisible and silent in the face of the laboratorists of disaster wanting to create the impression of division in order to hide their unabashed struggle for power and the economic resources of the […]
La Paz – The National Electoral Court (CNE) is divided: the vice president of the entity Jeronimo Pinheiro manifested that the recall referendum convoked for August 10 by President Evo Morales should be suspended because of the existence of legal gaps.
“I believe that it is pertinent that this process be suspended, given that the law […]
Federico Fuentes, Caracas
26 July 2008
Commenting on how much the two had in common — same age, three children, similar music tastes — Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on April 11 that “perhaps we represent the new generation of leaders in Latin America”.
He added, however, that one difference still remained: […]