By Evelyn Callapino, Vision 360: “Those Who Didn’t Sign the Act: Women of Potosí in the Independence of Bolivia” Recovering from the archives the women of Potosí who did not sign the act is not an exercise in nostalgia, but an act of historical reparation. To look at those silences is also to look at…
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Land Seizures Threaten Rule of Law | Avasallamientos ponen en riesgo el Estado de Derecho
By Ernesto Estremadoiro, El Deber: CAO demands a technical, “non-political” INRA to guarantee legal certainty The president of the CAO entering the meeting with the Government The president of the Eastern Agricultural Chamber warned that land seizures are the result of land trafficking, not social conflicts, and called on the Government to apply the law…
Republic or Plurinational State? | ¿República o Estado Plurinacional?
By Fernando Untoja, Eju.tv: An Aymara Look at the False Dilemma State failure does not begin with the Republic, but it becomes consolidated with the Plurinational State. The Republic, despite its structural limits, sought to build a nation-state, a common citizenship, and a shared political identity. Its horizon was imperfect, but modern: legal equality, sovereignty,…
It Is Necessary to Put the Foreign Ministry in Order | Es necesario ordenar la Cancillería
By Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: The “guillotine telex,” as don Augusto Céspedes, the “Chueco,” called it with his acid humor, arrived when there was a change of government or simply of foreign ministers: the notice of dismissal, without much explanation. They would “thank you for your services,” as if one needed to be thanked. The…
Current X-ray of the Bolivian economy | Radiografía actual de la economía boliviana
By Francesco Zaratti: In 2025, the Bolivian economy resembled a patient rushed into a hospital emergency room with multiple hemorrhages and a general condition of extreme anemia. The main hemorrhage (let’s say in the stomach) was caused by the subsidized import of 90% of the diesel oil consumed, which came to represent two billion dollars…
Maragua: A Living Tapestry Near Sucre | Un tapiz vivo cerca de Sucre
By Ivan Ramos, Erbol:4 Maragua, the colorful heart that beats near Sucre Maragua, Quila Quila, Irupampa, and Potolo concentrate within a single territory a unique combination of geology, history, and living culture. Located in District 8 of the municipality of Sucre, this region is home to the imposing syncline of multicolored mountains, a geological structure…
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