An arrested Leopoldo Fernández gets on a plane for La Paz today (photo shamelessly stolen from blogsite "down south" doing on-the-spot marvels from Santa Cruz)
Pando chief Leopoldo "nothing to do with me, honest" Fernández is arrested and shipped out to La Paz. Nice on the spot blogging from Down South, who's in Santa Cruz right now and took photos of the local racists actually rallying to support the mass murderer when news of his arrest got out. Impressive stuff. Go see his blog, that's an order.
Abiding in Bolivia knocks one straight out the park with this post that goes into the details of how it all happened with plenty of source material on hand, too. Essential reading for those who want to understand how all this came to pass.
On a personal note, I've been pleasantly surprised about the number of people accessing last night's post that translated The Moneda Declaration. It seems there are still people out there who care for things like rule of law, decency and true democracy; good for you.
Even the LatAm right wing is disgusted by the Santa Cruz fascists. This is what President Alvaro Uribe had to say after last night's historic declaration. I have to say that Uribe has gone up in my estimation in the 72 hours.
Uribe sez:"(I support the gov't of Evo Morales) in the same way that Colombia always asks to condemn the terrorist violence that affects our country. It is very important that all South American countries come together to defend constitutional order and democracy in Bolivia that is made flesh in its President Evo Morales, who has just been ratified by a wide margin in an unquestionable democratic process."
Abiding in Bolivia knocks one straight out the park with this post that goes into the details of how it all happened with plenty of source material on hand, too. Essential reading for those who want to understand how all this came to pass.
On a personal note, I've been pleasantly surprised about the number of people accessing last night's post that translated The Moneda Declaration. It seems there are still people out there who care for things like rule of law, decency and true democracy; good for you.
Even the LatAm right wing is disgusted by the Santa Cruz fascists. This is what President Alvaro Uribe had to say after last night's historic declaration. I have to say that Uribe has gone up in my estimation in the 72 hours.
Uribe sez:"(I support the gov't of Evo Morales) in the same way that Colombia always asks to condemn the terrorist violence that affects our country. It is very important that all South American countries come together to defend constitutional order and democracy in Bolivia that is made flesh in its President Evo Morales, who has just been ratified by a wide margin in an unquestionable democratic process."
Otto sez; w00t for Alvaro over that one