Living in a failed state | Vivir en un Estado fallido

Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: The road to turn Bolivia into a failed state is well advanced and perhaps it would not have been necessary to add a section of shame, with the military patrol that surrendered to some smugglers. That unfortunate spectacle was not necessary when clandestine drug trafficking rings are operating in Bajo Paraguá,…

The coca nostra | La coca nostra

Carlos Toranzo, Página Siete: A Brazilian inmate escapes twice from maximum security prisons in Bolivia, several Brazilians are murdered in Bolivia for settling scores for drug trafficking, many of them are from the Primer Comando Capital cartel. Every week the DEA in Paraguay captures small planes from Bolivia full of cocaine. Morales’s masista faction accuses…

Internal struggles of the MAS between complaints and mutual threats | Pugnas internas del MAS entre denuncias y amenazas mutuas

El Diario: Leaderships are questioned Given the constant climate of conflict within the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which in recent days has led to questions of its statutes and even statements that warn of threats of assassination, the opposition parliamentarians regretted that these disputes affect Government management, resembling the actions of the ruling party with…

They fight for power and money | Pelean por el poder y la plata

Editorial, Página Siete: The internal war of the MAS has escalated in recent days to the point that the evismo talks about analyzing the expulsion of President Luis Arce from the party ranks. In fact, if they are consistent with this position, they should throw him out because he was the one who promulgated the…