Editorial, El Diario: Exigencies, strikes and bulk extremes All labor and business organizations in the country, as well as most of the institutions, have vast experiences on what the extremes identified as strikes, demonstrations, protests, walkouts, blockades and others bring to the country; on the other hand, they know what the “last consequences” mean, a…
Month: March 2021
Unfinished coups – Golpes inconclusos
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Memories of the present Something is wrong in Bolivia. We had the scepter of being the country with the most coups, but the last two have been made by apprentices. We could have written the Larousse on the coups d’état, but we have flunked. If it is true that in November…
US questions legality of Bolivian arrests of ex-officials
AP News: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The United States said Saturday that it is concerned about increasingly ″anti-democratic behavior and the politicization of the legal system” in Bolivia following the arrests of officials from the country’s former interim government. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that there are questions about…
Lithium and lies – Litio y mentiras
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Economic analysis President Luis Arce decided to lie in Mexico, probably thinking he was in Bolivia.He said that the Quantum electric cars that are made in Cochabamba use lithium batteries made in the country, which is not true: they use lead batteries.The lithium battery plant that the government of the coca…
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