By Carlos Toranzo Roca, Brujula Digital: In 2003, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was forced to resign. The social mobilizations were not innocent; they wanted to oust him from power. El Mallku explicitly said they had rebelled and that government personnel were ambushed in Warisata to overthrow the government. The mobilizations in El Alto were not…
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Urgent measures proposed to stabilize the economy | Plantean medidas urgentes para estabilizar la economía
By El Diario: They must be short-term and based on a political pact In light of the difficult situation Bolivia is going through, economists are proposing urgent short-term measures and a political pact to stabilize the economy and make it to August; otherwise, the country could fall into a coma and the situation would worsen….
Impossible Tourism | Turismo imposible
By Juan Jose Toro, Vision 360: Even if Bolivia had wonderful hotels and international airports at its main tourist destinations, people who could spend their dollars in the country won’t come if there’s a chance they’ll be held up somewhere along the way. Based on the information, knowledge, and culture he possesses, Carlos Hugo Molina…
Real legacy of MAS: a poorer, more unequal, more vulnerable country | Legado real del MAS: un país más pobre, más desigual, más vulnerable
Editorial, El Día: The Children of MAS They are not Andrónico, Evo, or Arce. Nor are they the heirs to political positions, congressional seats, or looted state companies. The true children of MAS are the poor—those millions of Bolivians who, after nearly 20 years of the so-called “process of change,” are worse off than before….
What was expected: made easy | Lo que se esperaba: en facilito
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida, El Dia: The problem is not only economic, it is also political—and that is the hardest to tackle. Arce and MAS have brought Bolivia to ruin. But they say every crisis brings opportunities. That’s right. Let’s take a look. First, the reality is that our currency has already been devalued; the…
Failure under the centralist liberals | Bolivians at Harvard | El fracaso de los liberales centralistas
Editorial, El Día: Bolivians at Harvard The recent “political-intellectual tour” of Marcelo Claure at Harvard has stirred a mix of skepticism and disappointment. Under the pretext of debating Bolivia’s economic direction, what unfolded was an ideological recycling show, led by the same intellectual elites from the highlands who have co-governed Bolivia’s failure for decades. The…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 