From The Economist: Morales’ hazard After 13 years of his rule, voters are getting restless “Bolivia is an insurrectionary nation,” declares Norma Berno, a tiny woman with piercing eyes at a “rally for democracy” on October 10th in La Paz, the administrative capital. In the early 2000s she demonstrated in favour of nationalising Bolivia’s large gas…
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evo’s long-standing legacy is the blooming narcotrafficking along with its violence!
Guillaume Goudreau reports for Illicit Trade News Network: Police in Bolivia arrest Lima Lobo family drugs clan boss in Interpol-supported operation An Interpol-backed operation carried out by law enforcement authorities in Bolivia has resulted in the arrest of a major drug baron wanted by police in Brazil on an international warrant. Investigators in the South…
Goni tells the truth about the Bolivian economic boom; wasted under evo, who is nothing but an upstart cheap liar!
Letter from Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Former President of Bolivia, 1993-97 and 2002-03, to the Financial Times, graph at the bottom from El Dia: My policies helped pave the way for Bolivia’s boom I have always trusted the Financial Times but your Big Read on Bolivia, “The limits of Evonomics” (October 9), has shaken my…
Bolivia’s election could lead to a ruthless ‘elected dictatorship.’ But no one’s paying attention
Andres Oppenheimer writes for The Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, click here: President Evo Morales has twisted Bolivia’s constitution to allow him to run for a fourth term, despite term limits. AIZAR RALDES GETTY IMAGES Much of Latin America’s attention is focused on the Oct. 27 elections in Argentina and Uruguay. But there’s a scandalous election…
How Evo Morales running again — and again — undermines Bolivia’s democracy
Ben Raderstorf and Michael J. Camilleri report for The Washington Post, picture at the bottom from the internet: Ben Raderstorf is a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and a non-resident fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue. Michael J. Camilleri is director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. On…
Bolivia prepares for elections under great uncertainty
Lorenzo Agüero reports for The Global Americans, photo from the internet: This piece originally appeared in Spanish in Análisis Latino. To read the original piece click here. Bolivian President Evo Morales comfortably won the country’s last three presidential elections. But as he runs for his fourth term, this time may be different. For Morales—in power since…
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