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,…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
The absurdity of not acknowledging a government | El absurdo de desconocer un gobierno
Editorial, Página Siete: Not acknowledging the existence of a government that lasted a year in power is an absurdity of such magnitude that, if it were not for the consequences that this madness entails, it would only deserve a few minutes of astonishment and laughter. Although it seems taken from a fantasy book, the truth…
Desperate government | Gobierno desesperado
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Due to the things that the Government is doing before the arrival of the crisis caused by the errors of the first management of the MAS, it is seen that it is desperate. All that remains is for someone, for example, the attorney general or the prosecutor, to initiate an investigation…
Opaque leadership – Liderazgos opacos
Lupe Cajias, El Deber: A week ago I briefly summarized some examples of the willingness of Bolivian citizens, especially in urban spaces, to resist, fight and defeat initiatives that are authoritarian, arbitrary and/or with dictatorial overtones. The second part of this reflection is to relate this capacity for spontaneous organization, mostly peaceful and courageous, with…
Attacks on the citizen initiative – Ataques a la iniciativa ciudadana
Editorial, Página Siete: The citizen initiative to reform justice has begun to receive a series of attacks from the ruling party because it sees its control of the Judicial Branch threatened. Within this framework, the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyo (Conamaq) has rejected the initiative with the fallacious argument that it seeks…
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…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 