Juan Jose Toro, El Potosi: Murder of Sucre: Alba’s double tableau We present to you the first of two notes on the paintings inspired by one of the most gruesome assassinations in South American history. June 4 is a fatal date. On a day like today, but in 1830, the man who made the foundation…
Category: Politics
Illegal mining, absent state | Minería ilegal, Estado ausente
Editorial, El Deber: In the south of the Madidi National Park, in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, community members and illegal miners shoot each other, burn houses, kidnappings take place and the State makes its complete absence shine there. On Tuesday of this week there was a confrontation that left…
The damn roadblocks encouraged by evo | Los malditos bloqueos de caminos alentados por evo
Editorial, Los Tiempos: One blockade after another Although the country is still immersed in the economic crisis, which began to manifest itself in 2014, and in the health crisis, since an imminent fifth wave of the pandemic is already announced, the road blockade has reappeared on the public agenda as a form of pressure so…
Serious structural flaws in the Justice | Fallas estructurales graves en la Justicia
Editorial, El Deber: Dramatic report of the UN rapporteur All of us Bolivians knew it, but a foreign professional with the position of special rapporteur of the United Nations had to come to carry out an observation mission and several interviews to take away a good amount of information, the same information that today allows…
Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime AP in La Paz Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student – and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being…
The economy falters | La economía tambalea
Antonio Saravia, Pagina Siete: Signs of the beginning of the end The economy has been bad for a long time. We are not “getting ahead,” we are not “armoured” and we are not “enviable.” Not even remotely. The reality is that the economy is faltering and slogans can no longer hide the disaster. In recent…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 