The Economist: A landslide election victory brings peace to the country, at least for now On october 18th, the owner of a guesthouse on Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca walked for an hour on a dusty path past Inca ruins to vote in a re-run of Bolivia’s election. He was worried. Last year’s contest…
Month: October 2020
El MAS es más sin Evo Morales – MAS is more without Evo Morales
Editorial, Página Siete: It turns out that there is life for the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) apart from Evo Morales. Long life. This is not good news for the former president asylee in Argentina who, contrary to what the figures say, interprets that the vote received by Luis Arce is a message asking for his…
¿Qué pasó? – What happened?
Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete: Reasons for the victory of MAS One of the reasons for the high MAS vote in last Sunday’s elections is that, in addition to support for candidate Luis Arce, there was a “punishment vote” against the transitional government. Hundreds of thousands of people who had supported Evo Morales’s party in the…
Bolivian president-elect: “no role” for the winning party leader Evo Morales currently exiled in Argentina
Merco Press: Bolivia’s president-elect Luis Arce said on Tuesday that there was “no role” in his government for socialist party leader Evo Morales, who governed for almost 14 years before resigning under pressure last year and fleeing the country. Arce swept to power in a Sunday ballot, with the official count – technically still underway…
¿Y ahora qué? – Now, what?
Editorial, El Diario: Pathetic inheritance for the new government Whichever new government holds the reins of the State in its hands, it will encounter great economic and, therefore, social and political difficulties. The waste of the last fourteen years by the mismanagement of the MAS of Evo Morales-García Linera reaches incredible proportions. Added to that…
Singani = 65 kg (grapes/uvas)
El Dia: They distill 65 kg of grapes for a bottle of singani A group of Bolivian winemakers managed to produce a singani with a concentration of 67 kilos of grapes per bottle and 10 years of rest, which represents a milestone in the country’s wine industry, explained those responsible for the project. Long-standing project….
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