Gonzalo Chávez, El Deber: The ideological delirium in which the Government finds itself drives it to control the entire spectrum of economic and political analysis. It defines what a crisis is, in its image and likeness, it determines which indicators do or do not measure a crisis and from this, it builds a propaganda narrative…
Category: Economics
A subsidy that is difficult to sustain | Una subvención difícil de sostener
Editorial, El Deber: For almost a decade, the Bolivian economy has had a worrying fiscal deficit, mostly attributed to the subsidy of imported hydrocarbons. It is undeniable that the subsidized price of gasoline and diesel has contributed to containing inflation and has generated economic benefits, which means that any attempt to eliminate it faces social…
The more government, the more poverty | A más gobierno, más pobreza
Editorial, El Dia: As the government runs out of money, its defects begin to become more clearly visible: there is no diesel, debts increase, there is a shortage of dollars, the inability to attend to emergencies such as drought, lack of water, serious fires and political discrepancies also arise that in the past were resolved…
Official demagogy 👎🏽 Demagogia oficialista
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The statements of some Government authorities regarding current issues related to the management of the State, events that affect the population and political problems, suggest that the ruling party does not care about the deterioration of the trust that Bolivians have in their rulers. This deterioration is reflected in three surveys carried…
Reporting prohibited 🤦🏻♂️ Prohibido informar
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Although the MAS government is the one that allocates the largest fortunes to propaganda, which would make one believe that it appreciates the dissemination of information, at the same time it prohibits the release of news. It is a vocation that began in 2006, when it ordered YPFB to discontinue monthly…
You’re liberal and you don’t know it | A que eres liberal y no lo sabes
Jaime Dunn, Brujula Digital: Sometimes labels scare us. They refer us to heated debates, complex ideologies and philosophies. But let me pose a surprising idea: day after day, in the choices you make, from the most trivial to the most consequential, you are practicing liberalism and you probably don’t even realize it. Before you skip…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 