Editorial, Los Tiempos: Former President Jeanine Áñez, imprisoned for two months, is becoming the symbol of the authoritarianism with which the MAS seeks to manage the State, of the party’s own contradictory internal dynamics and, also, of the inefficiency of a government that, six months after its inauguration, it is unable to steer the ship…
Category: Crime and Violence
Involution, hand in hand with the masismo – Involución, de la mano del masismo
Editorial, El Diario: Community Justice and Dreadful Acts In the past week, the Bolivian population suffered a painful spiritual shock to learn that in an indigenous community a man was arrested, stripped, tortured and finally killed in a way that is nothing short of horrifying, since, previously, he was burned alive and executed by a…
Six months of government? – Seis meses de ¿gobierno?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Today is half a year [5/8/2021] since the Government of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), elected in October 2020, assumed the reins of the State, and as we verified three months ago in this same space, when They were fulfilling the first 100 days of the presidency of Luis Arce, their actions…
Galloping corruption! – ¡Corrupción galopante!
Editorial, El Diario: Official inefficiency accelerates corruption As unemployment has “face for everything,” it is said that having well-paid jobs in the informal economy is the easiest. Every position has “officials ready for anything” (and they queue at the doors of the boss). This has always been a prevailing reality at all times because, from…
Many loose ends – Muchos cabos sueltos
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Difficult moment for Bolivians. At times it seems that they have two governments and then they have the feeling that they do not even have one. The coca grower Morales dispatches from the Chapare. There he receives foreign chancellor ministers and the creme de la creme of the Santa Cruz business…
The world watches Arce – El mundo mira a Arce
Editorial, Pagina Siete: If President Luis Arce believed that the persecution undertaken by his government against former President Jeanine Añez and her collaborators would not have a cost for his administration, he was wrong. The European Parliament approved by 396 votes in favor, 267 against and 28 abstentions, a very harsh resolution that condemns “the…
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