The Analysis News, September 06/2020: An interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of The Andean Information Network, about Bolivia’s Coup Government Uses Repression and Pandemic to Avoid Election.

American Indian Airways on KPFK, September 05/2020: An interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of The Andean Information Network, about the racist focus of  Bolivia‘s coup government and paramilitary groups.

CBC LISTEN, August 25/2020: An Interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of The Andean Information Network, about Bolivian rights organization on Juan Tellez.

The Washington Post, August 12/2020: “I don’t think you can say [the socialist] leadership is controlling this thing,” said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a think tank based in Cochabamba. “I’m not sure they have the power to stop it.”

BNN Bloomberg, August 10/2020: “Most rural areas in the entire nation are blockaded and they’re blockaded by a variety of social movements,” said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a Bolivia-based think tank.

NACLA. June 26/2020: “One would expect that turning over Álvarez Peralta would be an easy diplomatic victory for Áñez, yet he still walks free in Bolivia and there doesn’t appear to be any effort under way to work with the United States on capturing him,” Ledebur, of the Andean Information Network, said.

BNN Bloomberg, May 20/2020: “The ventilator scandal “does not amuse most of the population which has been struggling to eat on $73 government stipend per family for two months” said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a Bolivia-based think tank.”

Al Jazeera Network, March 20/2020: An Interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of The Andean Information Network, about the influence that OAS had in the last Bolivian elections  and other countries.

Estrategia Nacional Contra el Narcotráfico y la Economía Ilegal de las Drogas- “Bolivia, Libre de Drogas”, February/2020.  La Estrategia nacional contra el narcotráfico y la economía ilegal de las drogas: “Bolivia, libre de drogas” es un modelo de gestión integral y equilibrada que expresa la nueva política de lucha contra las drogas del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia.

VICE News, February 26/2020: Morales’s departure and the rhetoric around the lead-up to elections in May is already affecting coca farmers negatively, said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network and a researcher at Reading University in the UK.

The Real News Network, February 14/2020: As campaigning begins to repeat the Oct. 20 election that ended in a coup against former President Evo Morales, it remains far from certain whether this new election, under right-wing President Jeanine Añez, will be free and fair, interview with Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network and a researcher at Reading University in the UK.

AP News, January 07/2020: “The Trump administration has clearly picked sides,” said Kathryn Ledebur of the nonprofit Andean Information Network in Bolivia and a researcher at Reading University in the UK. “But it should also highlight concerns about human rights violations and erosion of democratic rights.”

The Guardian, December 02/2019: On 15 November, the police and military opened fire on indigenous protesters outside Bolivia’s fourth largest city, Cochabamba, killing nine and wounding more than 120. “We were marching peacefully and they began shooting off tear gas and firing on us,” a crying woman told the Andean Information Network. “They treated us like animals.” Four days later, in El Alto, police and military opened fire again on indigenous demonstrators, leaving eight dead and more than 30 wounded.

Socialist Project, December 01/2019: In this interview, Corvin Russell speaks with Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network and Bret Gustafson of Washington University in St. Louis about the coup, right wing atrocities, and extreme repression currently happening in Bolivia.

NPR News, November 25/2019: It’s a whole reshaping of the discourse around religious symbolism and, I think, superiority says Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

PBS News, November 25/2019: “There’s been a great deal of racism, a great deal of polarization, a great deal of hatred, aimed at indigenous communities because of this election,” said Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a human rights nonprofit in Cochabamba. “It’s been a problem since Morales first won in 2006, but now there’s a reason to raise the issue.”

The Nation, November 18/2019: Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, says, “There haven’t been this many dead at once since at least 2008.” And extreme-right-wing culture wars have also been waged outside the presidency.
Chapo Trap House, November 18/2019: Interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of  the Andean Information Network, about the ongoing political crisis in Bolivia.
Democracy Now, November 18/2019: The military was armed — we didn’t see any injuries from rubber pellets, but we found at the site of the massacre, during our investigation Friday night, hundreds of tear gas canisters, U.S.-issued tear gas, two different kinds, and hundreds of spent military bullets. It’s interesting to note that the self-proclaimed Bolivian government claims that coca growers were armed and that they had firearms, says Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia and a researcher at Reading University in the UK.
A News, November 15/2019: Political analyst Kathryn Ledebur of the nonprofit Andean Information Network in Bolivia, who has lived in the country for nearly 30 years, said Morales could have a case.”A resignation letter has to be presented and considered, and accepted in the plenary before it goes into effect,” she said. “Do I think that Evo wants to return and be president – I don’t see that. But does he want to mess with them? Yes. He wants to keep them guessing.”

AP News, November 15/2019: Political analyst Kathryn Ledebur of the nonprofit Andean Information Network in Bolivia, who has lived in the country for nearly 30 years, said Morales could have a case in saying his resignation is invalid.

Video Cesar Sipe, Sacaba-Bolivia,November 15/2019: For the coup deniers and “protestors in shot themselves” crew: Here’s the video César Sipe was taking on his cell when the Bolivian military shot and killed him during the massacre November 15, in Huayllani – Sacaba, Bolivia. Brace yourselves. It’s hard to watch; but it’s clear what happened.
Wola, November 14/2019: Interview with Kathryn Ledebur, a longtime Bolivia expert and colleague who directs the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba-Bolivia, about Bolivia’s Post-Evo Meltdown.

Buzz Feed News,November 14/2019: The people making the threats aren’t bothering to conceal their real names, according to Kathryn Ledebur, a political expert in Bolivia and the director of the Andean Information Network, a nonprofit that promotes human rights.

Al Jazeera Network, November 14/2019: An Interview with Kathryn Ledebur, Director of The Andean Information Network, about the tension in Bolivia after Evo Morales resigned as president and Jeanine Añez declared herself the interim leader.

The Christian Science Monitor, November 14/2019: “It’s a mess,” says Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia and a researcher at Reading University in the UK. “Right now none of what is going on is democratic,” she says, referring “first and foremost” to Senator Áñez’s declaration.
The Real News Network, November 12/2019: Yesterday was an extremely violent day. Yesterday evening, the Bolivian armed forces went out on the streets, something that they had not done during this conflict when Morales remained president, says Kathryn Ledebur.
PBS News, November 11/2019: It’s interesting. The way that the conflict has evolved now, it’s really splitting down much more on class lines and ethnic lines and rural-urban lines, says Kathryn Ledebur.

The Inquirer, November 10/2019: “They made a conscious choice to avoid sustained, violent conflict,” said Kathy Ledebur, the director of the Andean Information Network in Bolivia. “The rural areas that support Evo could have come and laid siege to the cities. They could have kept it up for days. That did not happen.”

OZI News, Octuber 27/2019: “Right-wing governments are good at getting elected and stirring up discontent and attacking the opposition, but they aren’t very good at governing,” says Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network and a researcher at Reading University in the U.K.

Aljazeera Network, Octuber 26/2019:  Kathryn Ledebur of the Cochabamba-based research centre, the Andean Information Network, said that accusations of a rigged vote began simmering months before the election, creating an “expectation of fraud going into the elections”.

Bloomberg, Octuber 24/2019: Clashes broke out between rival supporters in some cities in the worst violence is the worst the nation has seen in more than a decade, according to Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, a Bolivia-based think tank.
The Real  News Network, Octuber 22/2019: “Most largely ran on a campaign of stability, of effective programs, of their track record. Obviously, that wasn’t enough to convince the majority of voters. We now have a scenario where Mesa has not had a clear platform either except in rejection of Morales and an idea of rolling back partially his policies. I think it’s going to be an interesting time for Bolivian voters to begin to envision what a potential Carlos Mesa government might be like and what that impact would be. And I think voters could go many ways”. says Kathryn Ledebur.

The Guardian, Octuber 21/2019: “Fourth place candidate Oscar Ortiz expressed vehement rejection of Carlos Mesa’s proposals during the campaign,” said Kath Ledebur of the Cochabamba-based think tank, Andean Information Network. “But it wouldn’t be the first time in Bolivia’s electoral history that sworn enemies have formed marriages of convenience to take office.”

Wola, Octuber 02/2019: Interview with Kathryn Ledebur about the issues that have defined the electoral campaign, the potential voting scenarios, and the implications for Bolivia if Morales is voted out of office or retains the presidency for another five-year term.
The Guardian, September 05/2019: Kathryn Ledebur, whose area of expertise includes programmes to allow Bolivian farmers to continue cultivating the coca plant from which cocaine is produced, said in “the shift from a US imposed violent eradication of the plant in the so-called war on drugs to a model where coca is rationed, farmers are allowed to grow it for alternatives and it actually works in creating basic farm incomes rather destroying entire crops”.
The Dialogue, August 29/2019: Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba: “August results indicate a growing gap between Morales and Mesa. Morales shows a three-point advantage even in urban areas, assumed to be the strongest sector of opposition support. Third-place candidate Ortiz dominates in Santa Cruz. Polling consistently underestimates support for Morales in rural areas. Without a clear electoral platform, consolidated party or achievements during his short presidential term, it is unlikely that Mesa can defeat Morales, who now could win in the first round.
World Politics Review, August 7/2019: Eradication vs. Legal Coca: Colombia and Bolivia’s Disparate Drug Policies with Isabel Pereira of De Justicia (Colombia) and Kathryn Ledebur of Andean Information Network.