Editorial, Los Tiempos: One blockade after another Although the country is still immersed in the economic crisis, which began to manifest itself in 2014, and in the health crisis, since an imminent fifth wave of the pandemic is already announced, the road blockade has reappeared on the public agenda as a form of pressure so…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
In Bolivia’s Silver Mountain, Artisanal Miners Turn to Coca and the Devil | En la Montaña de Plata de Bolivia, los mineros artesanales recurren a la coca y al diablo
Reuters, USNews: By Marcelo Rochabrun and Santiago Limachi CERRO RICO, Bolivia (Reuters) – Next to one of Bolivia’s poorest cities lies one of the richest silver mines in the history of mankind – Cerro Rico, Spanish for ‘Rich Mountain – a once-legendary source of wealth for the Spanish Empire that is now being dug out…
Serious structural flaws in the Justice | Fallas estructurales graves en la Justicia
Editorial, El Deber: Dramatic report of the UN rapporteur All of us Bolivians knew it, but a foreign professional with the position of special rapporteur of the United Nations had to come to carry out an observation mission and several interviews to take away a good amount of information, the same information that today allows…
The economy falters | La economía tambalea
Antonio Saravia, Pagina Siete: Signs of the beginning of the end The economy has been bad for a long time. We are not “getting ahead,” we are not “armoured” and we are not “enviable.” Not even remotely. The reality is that the economy is faltering and slogans can no longer hide the disaster. In recent…
Masista legacy | Legado masista
Juan Carlos Ferreyra, El Diario: Bolivia is deinstitutionalized As never before, our country today is totally deinstitutionalized. Practically a majority of the public institutions that make up the national State are with interim authorities or with authorities finger-pointed by the official party that governs us. A pathetic case is the Ombudsman’s Office, which for six…
Masista government owes a total of almost 30,000 million dollars!! – Gobierno masista debe en total ¡¡casi 30.000 millones de dólares!!
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Success of the Economic Model… but, the patient has died The Community Social Economic Model, of origin already noted, is practically unknown by public opinion. It is, in reality, a state secret, barely disclosed and, at most, it was published in an official magazine with little circulation. Its existence is limited…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 