Juan Jose Toro, Pagina Siete: It was a coup If a coup d’état is the takeover of the government of a country with the aid of violence, was that the resignation of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada? No. Nobody put a gun to Goni’s head to make him resign or was he pushed out of the…
Month: December 2020
Chau liderazgo – evo – Bye leadership
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Symbolic blue chair Symbolic is the color, blue, of the chair that the head of the Movement for Socialism received yesterday on his head, during an extended session of that party, in the Chapare, where its national and departmental leaders tried to define the candidacies for the governors of the nine departments…
Evo Morales silletazo provokes criticism and memes in Bolivia
By Desk, Inspired Traveler [I included pics, and inserted them along this article as they appeared in social media]: La Paz, 15 Dec (EFE) .- The controversy was served in Bolivia following the silletazo against former President Evo Morales at a meeting of his party, with reactions ranging from criticism, concern and threats of expulsion…
Nuevas Especies – Zongo – New Species
Pagina Siete: 20 species new to science found in the Zongo Valley Among the twenty finds are the Yope mountain viper, the Bolivian flag snake and the Liliputian frog. “It is a milestone for science,” according to experts. Hallan 20 especies nuevas para la ciencia en el valle de Zongo Entre la veintena de hallazgos…
Ni experto ni competente – Neither expert nor proficient
Editorial, El Deber: Worrying government economic measures The Government has defined a package of economic measures that is worrying for the national productive sector. On the one hand, the bill for the tax on large fortunes and the reduction of the Value Added Tax are under treatment. On the other hand, seven economic decrees of…
A enmendar se dijo – Time to amend
Ernesto Estremadoiro, El Deber: They anticipate that Arce will have to make unpopular decisions to clean up the State accounts Considered the architect of the “Bolivian miracle,” the president must now administer a country with a very different situation from the boom time that Bolivia experienced in the last decade Torino Economics, the economic research…
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