Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Moral degradation was his policy What happened in October and November 2019 was not only a crisis of excess patronage and state prebendalism, it not only implied the defense of the vote and democracy against authoritarianism that was on the way to a dictatorship; what Bolivia experienced was deeper than that,…
Category: Crime and Violence
Daño – economic – Damage
Editorial, El Diario: Blockers caused serious economic damage to the country How much regret and indignation the strikes and blockades carried out by the COB and the masismo have caused in the community; but, to a great extent, the blockers have seriously damaged the national economy and placed the people in greater poverty than they…
Conspiradores – cocaleros – Conniving
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Two coca-growers’ strategies The pupil of the coca grower Morales, Andrónico Rodríguez, has tried to surprise by saying that, in his opinion, the best candidate for the presidency at this moment is Carlos Mesa. But what it has done is to show that the Argentine advisers that the coca grower has…
Derrotar – MAS – Defeat
Gregorio Lanza, Pagina Siete: Can MAS be beaten in the first round? The impacts of the conflict (painful because of the losses and reckless because of its objectives) and the survey published on August 18 in Página Siete give us some guidelines that could help to answer if it will be possible to beat the…
Bloqueos – Blockades
Rafael Archondo, Pagina Siete: Failed guide to unblock When the civic caravan headed towards Tiquipaya, the blockades had already vanished. They had no choice but to return to the headquarters of their functions. The stone and log carpets were left there, and without people, they became mere portable obstacles to the movement of motorized vehicles….
Stumbles – evo – Tropieza
Robert Brockmann, Pagina Siete: The Black Fortnight of the Boss In the absence of the political beasts that used to surround him during his rule, the Chieftain works with the liver. And so it goes. Why did he order his faithful henchman, Juan Carlos Huarachi, to block the roads, at the worst historically conceivable moment?…
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