Editorial from El Diario: Destabilizing political tactic At this point there is no longer any doubt that the MAS – following the instructions of its boss – is developing its low intensity civil war tactic to profoundly destabilize the Transitional Government. This development increasingly adds new fronts of conflict. Now the middle and minor municipalities…
Category: Economics
Are we a pathetic country? – ¿Somos un país patético?
Vesna Marinkovic writes in El Dia: Are we a pathetic country? I am beginning to fear that we are a pathetic country. In 195 years of history we have not been able to build an institutional framework that makes us a solid and reliable country; we almost survived by magic. Planning is outside our borders….
The failure of the Plurinational State – El fracaso del Estado Plurinacional
Sergio Medinaceli writes in Pagina Siete: The failure of the Plurinational State “He who begins badly ends badly.” The Constituent Assembly called in 2006 for the total reform of the Political Constitution of the State begins with expectation the change that the country required due to the exhaustion of the political party system; the citizen…
MAS: used Foreign Affairs as travel agency – usó Relaciones Exteriores como agencia de viajes
El Diario reports: Minister Oscar Ortiz MAS used the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a travel agency There are new priorities indicated by President Añez, which are working for health and job creation for Bolivians. The economic resources that have been reduced in recent times, due to the world crisis, must be made effective in…
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…
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…
