Latin American governments are gaming their numbers
Late last year, Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz province in Bolivia, was snatched from his car by police, reportedly beaten and knocked to the ground, then helicoptered to jail in La Paz, the national capital. The official charge against him was “terrorism”, an accusation as troubling as it was opaque. More concerning still is what happened in Camacho’s province a few months earlier.
Political protests and a crippling general strike had been roiling there since September in the wake of a decision by the central government, run by the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism party, to cancel the national census.… Seguir leyendo »