Editorial from El Diario: A population that does not accept taking care of itself and being disciplined The presence of the coronavirus entails a series of difficulties not only for the authorities but for the very environments in which the evil is performed that does not shake in causing more victims because, even if there…
Month: June 2020
The failure of the Plurinational State – El fracaso del Estado Plurinacional
Sergio Medinaceli writes in Pagina Siete: The failure of the Plurinational State “He who begins badly ends badly.” The Constituent Assembly called in 2006 for the total reform of the Political Constitution of the State begins with expectation the change that the country required due to the exhaustion of the political party system; the citizen…
Constituent and federalism – Constituyente y federalismo
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Constituent and federalism The October-November revolution has not been understood by politicians. What the country wants is a real change, for example, a constituent that is a clean slate and a new account, starting with adopting federalism. This could have been achieved by announcing, on November 10, that open…
Elections yes, but not like this – Elecciones sí, pero no así
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Elections yes, but not like this When a country goes to an election conditioned by two events like the ones I will detail below, it puts its democracy at risk. Let’s see: COVID: The severity of the Pandemic may not go away or continue at this same level (or…
MAS: used Foreign Affairs as travel agency – usó Relaciones Exteriores como agencia de viajes
El Diario reports: Minister Oscar Ortiz MAS used the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a travel agency There are new priorities indicated by President Añez, which are working for health and job creation for Bolivians. The economic resources that have been reduced in recent times, due to the world crisis, must be made effective in…
Bolivia 101: New Constitution – Nueva Constitución
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: A new Constitution, as a national necessity The national and democratic insurrectionary uprising of November last year was not only intended to end a populist government, lacking the minimum historical orientation, but also to annul the current feudal and colonial Political Constitution of the State (2009) and replace it…
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