By Napoleón Pacheco, Brújula Digital: On the night of Sunday, September 8, President Luis Arce presented himself as the Bolivian Pontius Pilate. Why? He claimed that the reason for the dollar shortage, one of the symptoms of the crisis, was Evo Morales, as he “did not take care” of the “nationalization” since there was no…
Category: Economics
Santa Cruz, the older brother | Santa Cruz, el hermano mayor
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida, El Dia: Santa Cruz is the largest department of Bolivia in every sense: territorial, population, business, economy, etc. Santa Cruz is the older brother of the departments, and the father is the centralist, abusive, and dictatorial state, which resides in La Paz (La Paz, as a department, is the second oldest…
An environmental pause is not enough to stop ecocide | Una pausa ambiental no basta para frenar ecocidio
El Diario: They describe it as a deceptive measure The policies of Evo Morales’ government, continued by Luis Arce, amount to ecocide, biocide, and even environmental genocide, as the fires not only reduced millions of hectares of forest to ashes, but also had a catastrophic impact on indigenous and rural communities, according to lawyer Franz…
Rising inflation | Inflación en aumento
By Aldo Aguilera, El Dia: Bolivia has the third-highest inflation in the region, only behind Argentina and Venezuela Inflation in August was 1.58%, and the 12-month rate is 5.19%, according to the state-run National Institute of Statistics. The issue of inflation, which went unnoticed during the first three years of Luis Arce’s administration and was…
Arce without proposals to resolve the economic crisis | Arce sin propuestas de salida a la crisis económica
By German Huanca, Publico.bo: President Arce finally came clean before the country, first acknowledging that Bolivia is in an economic crisis, identifying the causes we all already knew, and offering solutions. Unfortunately, the identification of the causes and the proposed solutions do not resolve the economic crisis, will not bring dollars, nor will they resolve…
MAS: Intrinsically violent than democratic | Intrínsecamente violento que democrático
By Fernando Chavez, Vision 360: Analyst says MAS wants to resolve its division in the streets and not democratically The situation is very complex “and they are betting on the streets and violence to solve something that political capacity through dialogue has not been able to,” estimates Carlos Saavedra. Militants from Evo Morales’ faction of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 