By Luz Mendoza, Eju.tv: Summary Procedure: Innocents Forced to Accept Guilt to Stop Judicial Predation It often happens that due to the “evident miseries” of Bolivia’s penal system, after a series of unsuccessful attempts by the accused to prove their innocence —which they are not obligated to do—, faced with the system’s indifference and usually while…
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Bolivia’s Urgent Mission: Defeat the MAS | La Misión Urgente de Bolivia: Derrotar al MAS
Priority number one: Expelling the MAS By Jimmy Ortiz, El Deber: Indeed, that is the number one priority of the Bolivian people: to expel this nefarious regime, an appendage of the transnational Socialism of the 21st Century, heir to the failed communism that fell with the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union,…
Evo’s Ambition Unleashed: A Nation in Turmoil | La Ambición Desatada de Evo: Una Nación en Turbulencia
Evo out of focus By Rolando Kempff, El Deber: When greed and ambition overshadow reality, men become distorted and lost. This is more or less what is happening with Evo Morales, whose craving to return to power keeps him awake at night. There is no argument or plea that convinces him that the privileged time…
Ignominious End of a Despot | Final ignominioso de un despota
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: The Trumpeter Who Returned to Dust The biography of Evo Morales Ayma (Orinoca-Oruro Canton, 1959) is recounted in the most mythological ways. Iván Canelas, one of his biographers and former minister, claimed that Evo followed the path of Jesus; in the manger of Plaza Murillo, they placed a big-headed baby as…
Iran and Bolivia’s Strengthening Ties, a Risk for Latin America | Estrechamiento de lazos entre Irán y Bolivia, un riesgo para América Latina
By Juan Delgado/Dialogo Americas: Illustration/Diálogo Bolivian President Luis Arce and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi have vowed to strengthen bilateral relations as well as strategic cooperation in health, education, agriculture, and telecommunications, among other sectors, increasing the Islamic Republic’s footprint in Latin America, and setting off alarms in the hemisphere about the various threats to security,…
Bolivia’s economic and political risks | Riesgos económicos y políticos de Bolivia
Bnamericas: Bolivia’s economy faces headwinds from a lack of dollars, dwindling international reserves and political infighting within the governing party. “While inflation is not a problem in Bolivia, as it came in below 3% in February, economic growth has slowed down significantly, with real GDP below 2%,” William Foster, senior VP of sovereign risk at…
