It’s Not Just Morales: U.S. Rhetoric on Bolivia Also Problematic
Bolivian president Evo Morales’s frequent, blunt criticisms of the United States Government often provoke irritation and complaints in Washington about negative “rhetoric” impeding bilateral relations. Unfortunate comments from some U.S.…
Bolivian Military Stalls and Pressures Civilian Authorities in Human Rights Investigation
After the Bolivian armed forces refused to allow special prosecutor Milton Mendoza access to their files from the Garcia Meza dictatorship (1980-1981), despite court orders permitting him to do so,…
Bolivian armed forces block investigation of dictatorship deaths
It sounded too good to be true, and, of course it was. The new Bolivian Defense Minister, Ruben Saavedra, stated that the government, “has full democratic will to make the…
Does Morales’s “socialist” agenda pose a threat to American values?
This should quell some fears about how closed to capitalist and American initiatives the new Bolivian pluri-national government could be: During his campaign, Evo Morales promised that he would reach…