After “11 months of pain,” Bolivia returns to democracy

7 November 2020 — Peoples Dispatch

Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca will be sworn in tomorrow as president and vice-president of Bolivia, just one year after the coup d’état. Incoming senator Leonardo Loza speaks about the year of repression, and the steadfast resistance to it

by Zoe PC

 

Leonardo Loza, a trade union leader from the Trópico of Cochabamba and incoming senator.

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Bolivian Mayor, Patricia Arce, Covered in Paint, Dragged Through the Streets by Right Wing Fascists (Racism, Misogyny)

7 November 2019 — Orinoco Tribune

Right wing protesters used as an excuse against the mayor, the death of two protesters in clashes that happened in another town. The woman was forced to resign on her knees after she was spray painted with red and subjected to hours of humiliation.

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