Ivan Arias Duran for Pagina Siete: Amnesty now! The national Government has been magnanimous with smugglers and common criminals, because for the former, decreed amnesty for smuggled [chutos] cars (2011) and for the latter, the treatment of a law of pardon (2012). However, it insists on denying the existence of political prisoners while Bolivians know…
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Politics 101: Can Bolivia afford and continue to EVOlve around this egocentric state??!!
This article exposes the type of governement we have been enduring over the last seven years and prior years filled with road blockades, coca expansion and blooming anarchy… Raquel Otalora writes for El Deber: Million dollars to cover the orders of President Evo Morales Expensive tastes, which the President has. From an exclusive aircraft equipped…
Bolivian developmental gaps, can they be avoided??!!
Alberto Bonadona in Pagina Siete: The gaps toward development In Bolivia there is still the real awareness of the gaps that separate the Bolivian society and its development. The General formulas that international officials or local economists give continues. Abound the recommendations about the need for more education, more investment, etc. etc., but does not…
2011-2012: Bolivia and the obscene practice of the exercise of power
An exceptional end-of-the-year analysis by Susana Seleme Antelo, from http://www.hoybolivia.com: The obscene practice of the exercise of power “When lawyers tell me it is illegal, I just do it and I say just do it, then legalize it; for that they have studied”. Evo Morales Ayma. President of the former Republic of Bolivia, today Pluri-national State….
And the current Bolivian public office corruption avalanche continues to damage our image!
Roberto Mendez gives us more details on how wide is the corruption on current central Bolivian government spheres…, from El Dia: Every day that passes the complaints are multiplied Network: the Web expands Extortion. Bakovic, former roads service [manager] said he was one of the first victims and Congressman Oliva made it known that Villegas…
Bolivia: Subventions 101, irresponsible and unsustainable demagogue
An important Editorial analysis from El Diario: Subvention, a great dilemma The Government, since the damn “gasolinazo” [Bolivian slang of a proposed high increase in the prices of gasoline, diesel and liquid gas] of December 2010, has left in abeyance concerns by that measure, since the determination to abolish subsidies was overturned, it opened new…
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