April 19, 2023
Jeanine Añez in front of the images of the repression in El Alto in 2019. | photo: @AbyaYalaBolivia
On Monday, Bolivian Prosecutors filed a criminal charge against Jeanine Añez for the “Senkata Massacre”, a case in which the leader of the coup-born administration can receive up to 30 years in prison for crimes of genocide, homicide and serious injuries. (more…)
By Ollie Vargas on March 24, 2023
For the first time in Bolivia’s history, the country is now an exporter of electricity. As Europe struggles to keep the lights on, Bolivia’s nationalized electric company, ENDE, will provide Argentina with 132 thousand volts of electricity, announced Energy Minister Franklin Molina. (more…)
March 20, 2023
From the Congress of the National Confederation of Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia – Bartolina Sisa, President Luis Arce called to reissue the unity of social organizations and the political instrument that gave the victory in the 2020 elections, at a time when the national right “begins to raise its head” and the international right is interested in our natural resources. (more…)
March 7, 2023
El Alto
“El Alto on his feet, never on his knees!” is a slogan that reflects the combative character of the inhabitants of this indigenous Aymara city in Bolivia, which since 2003, has shaped the country’s history. This city led the uprising against the privatization of natural resources in 2003, and then the defense of democracy in the face of the 2019 coup. Both struggles resulted in numerous massacres against those of El Alto who stood up to defend the country. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on January 1, 2023
Luis Camacho
2022 ended in Bolivia with a complex political scenario. On December 28, National Police forces arrested Santa Cruz Province governor Luis Fernando Camacho after an arrest warrant was issued against him almost two months ago, based on his direct involvement of the 2019 coup d’état. He is also at least partially responsible for the Sacaba and Senkata massacres, where law enforcement officers killed 20 Bolivians by gunshots. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on November 14, 2022
compesinos in Santa Cruz are organizing against right wing violence
Most of Bolivia’s Right is murderous, but one of its captains, Luis Fernando Camacho who led the paramilitary aspects of the 2019 coup, is apparently too powerful to arrest, and became governor of the stronghold of the Right in Santa Cruz. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on November 6, 2022
No to the coup d’etat in Bolivia, photo: Perez del Carpio, picture-alliance
Once again the oligarchy allied with the US government and the Yankee transnationals are waving in Bolivia the banner of division, rupture and regression to the past of exclusion, inequality and oblivion. (more…)
La Jornada Editorial on November 1, 2022
Bolivian Labor Union stand against the right wing strike. photo: Patria Digital
The strike that yesterday completed its 10th day in the province of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, brings with it inevitable echoes of the coup d’état that three years ago deposed former president Evo Morales and installed an ephemeral de facto government headed by the now imprisoned Jeanine Áñez. (more…)