Constituent and federalism – Constituyente y federalismo

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Constituent and federalism The October-November revolution has not been understood by politicians. What the country wants is a real change, for example, a constituent that is a clean slate and a new account, starting with adopting federalism. This could have been achieved by announcing, on November 10, that open…

Elections yes, but not like this – Elecciones sí, pero no así

Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Elections yes, but not like this When a country goes to an election conditioned by two events like the ones I will detail below, it puts its democracy at risk. Let’s see: COVID: The severity of the Pandemic may not go away or continue at this same level (or…

Bolivia 101: New Constitution – Nueva Constitución

Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: A new Constitution, as a national necessity The national and democratic insurrectionary uprising of November last year was not only intended to end a populist government, lacking the minimum historical orientation, but also to annul the current feudal and colonial Political Constitution of the State (2009) and replace it…

Four Urgent Questions on Bolivia’s Election

Brendan O’Boyle reports for Americas Quarterly: Uncertainty reigns as the pandemic shakes Bolivian politics. Bolivia has been trying to elect a new president since last October, when the voting ended in protests, violence, President Evo Morales’ resignation and the ascent of an interim government nobody had voted for. Since then, the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has…

A naked nation – Una nación desnuda

Renzo Abruzzese writes in Pagina Siete: A naked nation Bolivians have known for a long time that we inhabited a poor country, but suddenly, in the face of the common pots that flooded the belts of poverty in large cities, the country felt that being a poor country was not a mere expression; it had…