Pagina Siete: Two ways to vote October 18 is not just any election. Democracy is at stake in Bolivia, after almost 14 years of an authoritarian government and after a transitional government that lacks the legitimacy provided by the ballot box. The ignorance of the results of the referendum of February 21, 2016, the qualification…
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El pacto posible – The possible pact
Ronald MacLean, Cabildeo Digital: If something has emerged from the political debate, it is the identification of the three aspects of the crisis that the next government will confront: health, the economy and corruption. By definition, corruption is the use of public means for private gain. State corruption occurs with greater intensity in authoritarian regimes…
Culpables – Culprits
Let’s be clear, who is to blame that we have had the worst government possible? Who raised the coca grower and the masismo to absolute power? So that we had ended up changing our name, our Constitution? So that the MAS continues to have votes, and now they tell us that maybe it will win…
As Bolivia election nears, could ‘Evonomics’ make a comeback?
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian voters, hit hard by political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic, are looking for some economic certainty ahead of elections on Oct. 18, which opinion polls suggest could boost the country’s socialists and see a return of ‘Evonomics’. The Andean country was one of Latin America’s steadiest economic…
Amedrentamiento – Intimidation
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Intimidation and the need for democracy The MAS, Evo Morales, David Choquehuanca, Luis Arce are using intimidation of the voters, they resort to fear so that the voter does not have the freedom to choose. These threats are not democratic, they bring out the authoritarianism and dictatorial tendencies of the MAS….
Demagogia cínica – Cynical demagogy
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Oil collectors It will be difficult to forget that, in this electoral campaign, candidate Luis Arce Catacora announced that, from the government, he would collect the used edible oil from the families to recycle it and thus, in five years, prevent Bolivia from importing diesel. Some state-owned company of instantaneous creation…
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