Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: When there is no moral Bolivia is not only experiencing a crisis of excess patronage and state pre-bendanism, what we are looking at at present is deeper than that, it is about the moral degradation of power due to the absence of ethics, due to the total loss of the values…
Category: Crime and Violence
Grupos de seguridad paraestatales violentos – Violent parastatal security groups
Pagina Siete: The US asks the government to dismantle “parastatal groups” that threaten activists The embassy of that country sent a note to the Vice Minister of the Interior Regime requesting that the GIEI’s recommendations be complied with. The US Embassy in Bolivia asked the government of Luis Arce to dismantle “parastatal groups” that threaten…
Autoritarismo y persecución – Authoritarianism and persecution
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Announced authoritarianism The actions of the Government and the ruling party in recent weeks are only half surprising, since they correspond to the way of governing that was announced a year ago. What is most surprising is how — especially in the last seven days — the abyss that separates the governors…
Masistas y bloqueos – Masistas and blockades
Manfredo Kempff, Los Tiempos: The kings of the blockade It is amusing -and also perplexing- to listen to senior Masista leaders and even ministers of the current government, praise work, production, exports, GDP growth, and pretend to enlighten the Bolivian population, as if it were idiot, expressing them that the blockades, marches and strikes damage…
Arce: NO sabe lo que hace ni lo que dice – Does NOT know what he does or what he says
Editorial, El Deber: Summons to confront President Luis Arce did not want to take time to attend the indigenous march that walked 37 days in the sun, but yesterday he attended rallies in Cochabamba and later in Santa Cruz, called ‘wiphalazo’, where he had disproportionate expressions in front of the critical moment that his government…
Distribución individual de la tierra – Individual land distribution
Pagina Siete: Anapo proposes individual land distribution The National Association of Oilseed Producers (Anapo) asked the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to act with the eviction of overwhelming people in productive properties and suggests that the land be distributed not only to communities, but also individually. The president of Anapo, Fidel Flores, read a statement…
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