Rodolfo Erostegui writes in Pagina Siete: Salaries and redistribution The negotiation on wages should become a pretext of the three social partners on the creation of decent jobs and the equitable distribution of national income. But generally they only end up discussing over the amount they have to increase on the wage. This year seems…
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Bolivian History 101: The significance of Abaroa’s sublime sacrifice
Rodolfo Becerra writes in El Diario: The significance of Abaroa’s sublime sacrifice Many voices say the issue of invasion of Chile to the Bolivian Litoral is a thing of the past and we should forget and make new approaches. This position is disloyal and treacherous, because we must maintain our condemnation of this act of…
The so-called socialists of the 21st century are nothing but tyrants!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Over and out A recent study on the “Arab Spring” prepared by Stimson, under the direction of Ellen Laipson, says the deposed tyrants had long been in power who acted like kings and neglected the details of governing. Moreover, to reach this overthrow, it was made by the weariness…
Bolivia History 101: Chile’s invasion forcing us to remain landlocked
Agustin Saavedra writes in El Deber: Another day of landlocked from the sea The Bolivian coastline was usurped by Chile in a conflict started on February 14, 1879. Today, March 23, 2014, 135 years running and the heroism of Eduardo Abaroa in Calama. At the end there was the loss of a vital territory. Chile,…
Bolivia and The collapse of the symbols…
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: The collapse of the symbols In his speech to come to power, the MAS used the idea of being better than all the previous political system, which was part – that was beyond him as the bearer of messages and new moral ethical behavior. Evo Morales criticized, not without…
Bolivian History 101: Brazil occupies Bolivian Acre territory!
Luis S. Crespo writes in El Diario, March 20, 1928: Brazil occupies Bolivia’s Acre The vanguard of the military expedition sent from Rio de Janeiro to invade the Acre, a command under Major Agostinho Gomes Raimundo Castro, occupied and took official possession of the barraca [farm] “Empresa”, obeying the orders and instructions of the Government…
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