Renzo Abruzzese writes for El Deber: Sousa Santos and reverse colonialism Boaventura de Sousa Santos can be considered the ideologue in the new Latin American populism line. To support the actions of the Governments of the type mentioned, the prestigious sociologist argues that the problems of current capitalism (referred to as post-capitalism) are two possible…
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Bolivian Corruption 101: Where Bolivia falls under the 2013 Corruption Barometer?
This post is longer than usual, it has Reuters’ worldwide news, followed by Bolivia’s data: Crisis of confidence in government handling of corruption, survey shows By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN | Tue Jul 9, 2013 11:10am IST (Reuters) – A majority of people worldwide believes corruption has worsened in the last two years and they see governments as…
Bolivia under undeniable extortion facts!
Carlos Valverde writes for El Deber: Extortion (and facts) Villegas, Rodas, Rivera, Gomez are surnames which have a common denominator: are known to the width and length of the country, as extortionists who used to work for power and who executed orders of power. They are in prison waiting for a fair trial that fails…
Bolivian SAFCO 101: more corruption and extortion, how could this be?!
Wilfredo Ramirez writes for El Diario: “SAFCO” law: there is spread corruption and extortion The law of administration and Control Government “SAFCO” as of July 20, 1990, was full of good intentions, was created to protect the resources and assets of the State against theft, fraud, embezzlement and aimed any public servant, whatever his hierarchy…
Why does Bolivia have a black hole!? Who is responsible for this??!!
Great but sad reality by Humberto Vacaflor Ganam who writes for El Deber: A black hole The journalist Jorge Lanata showed two weeks ago how to pass thousands of tons of products from Bolivia to Argentina through the border towns of Yacuiba, Bermejo and Villazon. Few hours ago, the Salta Senator Juan Carlos Romero, former…
Bolivian justice drowning as a result of central government interference!
Jimmy Ortiz Saucedo writes for Los Tiempos: Justice of the MAS does not hold water In July I wrote an article entitled “Dangerous experiment with the Bolivian justice”, where I said: “is very irresponsible to play with justice! In it lies freedom guarantees, the goods and democracy of a civilized country”. And it was really…
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