Friday, September 14, 2018

Bolivia Moves To Suppress What Is Left Of An Independent Media In The Country

Bolivian president Evo Morales

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald: Bolivia is following Venezuela and Nicaragua - and that’s toward totalitarian rule

While the mass exodus of more than 2.3 million Venezuelans and the murder of more than 300 anti-government protesters in Nicaragua are making big headlines, it may be time to pay attention to another country in the region that is also moving rapidly toward totalitarian rule: Bolivia.

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced last week that he will submit to his country’s Congress - where he enjoys a comfortable majority - a “law against lies,” which would penalize news about his government that he doesn’t like.

In several statements in recent weeks, Morales said he will propose a law to “punish liars” in the media and to “moralize” independent news organizations. The Inter-American Press Association has denounced that the proposed law would impose an all-out censorship on the media.

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WNU Editor: Cuba. Venezuela. Nicaragua. Bolivia. This is the trend in South America.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"This is the trend in South America."

Long supported by the USSR.

Seeds were planted long ago.

Communism does work (& peacefully at times). One must be honest about the values of the parameters under which it works.

Freaking DA Leftists have not learned about concepts like parameters, yet. They are having great fun using and misusing the notion of intersection. They think they are so smart using the term intersection.

I wonder when they are going to remember the rest of the terminology of 8th grade geometry.