Renzo Abruzzese, Página Siete: Our future destiny The departure of Evo Morales was ultimately due to a general popular uprising, in which the emergence of the middle classes was followed by all sectors of Bolivian society. This was not a time when disgust with the MAS authoritarian style had reached its highest level; in reality,…
Year: 2020
1era semana – Arce – 1st week
Humberto Vacaflor, EL Diario: First week of MAS-II In its first week of operation, the MAS-II government has shown some new trends alongside old instincts. -It is the first week of 2020 in which no cocaine is seized or drug factories are discovered. The managers would likely have been very busy these days. The managers…
¿Quien gobierna? – Who rules?
Jimena Costa, Pagina Siete: Internal petty war Many times, before the 2019 campaign, and certainly long before the pandemic, I heard people say that the worst thing that could happen to the opposition was to be a government. Economic crisis, fiscal deficit, tremendous external debt, accelerated decline in International Reserves, state-owned and rentier society, minimal…
Antidemocrático – Antidemocratic
Andres Gomez, Pagina Siete: Canceling the 2/3 is to segregate 45% of the country If the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) wants to leave its undemocratic past (2009-2019) and return to being a democratic party and of concertation (2020), why did it annul two thirds of the regulations of Deputies and Senators? You are likely to…
¿De verdad? – Really?
El Dia: The Ministry of Economy National currency, they rule out a devaluation Work. Also from the early hours of yesterday Friday, the new ministerial cabinet met to analyze the measures to get out of the economic crisis. El Ministerio de Economía Moneda nacional, descartan una devaluación Trabajo. Asimismo desde tempranas horas de ayer viernes,…
Lo mismo – The same
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Starting errors You could say that President Luis Arce has started by doing what all rookie presidents should do: criticize his predecessor. Only the Popes do not criticize their predecessors, because of the risk that the domino effect reaches the Holy Spirit, or even higher. He began by blaming the economic…
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