By Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: We know that, since the end of the Chaco War—especially beginning with the governments of Toro and Busch—political and social circumstances started to shift in Bolivia. Thousands of soldiers came back from the trenches defeated; but, more importantly, with the conviction that nothing was working in the country and that…
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The Police Reform Bolivia Needs | El cambio policial que Bolivia necesita
Editorial, El Pais: Without an honest police force, no State can function and no citizen can trust it. The Bolivian Police has dragged for decades a problem that corrodes its very foundations: corruption. This is not just about a few “bad officers,” as is often claimed to minimize the issue. It is about a system…
Santa Cruz reports 7 forest fires and 467 heat hotspots | Santa Cruz reporta 7 incendios forestales y 467 focos de calor
By El Diario: The Early Warning System for Forest Fires (Satif) reported yesterday 467 heat hotspots and seven active fires in the department of Santa Cruz, distributed across the municipalities of San Ignacio de Velasco (2), Carmen Rivero Torrez (1), San Matías (1), San Miguel (1), and San José (1), according to Paulo Viruez, director…
From Economic Collapse to the Runoff: Can Bolivia Rebuild Now? | Del desastre económico a la segunda vuelta: ¿podemos reconstruir Bolivia ahora?
By Bolivian Thoughts: The Dollar as a Thermometer of Collapse Bolivia heads into the October runoff on the edge of the abyss. The MAS, with its populist and arbitrary model, provoked a debacle that is brutally clear in the parallel dollar market: from the official Bs 6.96 it shot up in days to more than…
Nothing to propose, nothing for the future. Just the pleasure of attacking, dividing, setting fires | Nada de propuestas, nada de futuro. Solo el goce de atacar, de dividir, de incendiar
Editorial, El Dia: Silence means consent Edman Lara holds nothing back. One day he claims he stands above Rodrigo Paz and that he should have been the presidential candidate. The next, he boasts of making Paz win, while lashing out at the private sector and promising to raise the Renta Dignidad to 2,000 bolivianos—something that…
Intellectual drought, incoherent “loyalties,” and then they complain about turncoats? | Sequía intelectual, “lealtades” incoherentes, ¿y luego se quejan de transfugio?
By Visión 360: 21 elected legislators belong to parties different from the ones that nominated them In the case of the PDC, 4 are members of MAS, 3 of the FRI, and 2 of Morena. On the side of Alianza Libre, there are affiliates in the MTS, the PDC, MAS, Súmate, and ADN (one in…
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