Editorial, El Deber: Systems engineer Édgar Villegas has been charged with public instigation to commit crimes. Such a serious accusation comes from a deputy, Renán Cabezas, from the Evista bloc of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), who also demands that the professional be detained in the maximum-security prison of Chonchocoro. More than four years after…
Category: Social Unrest
Ignominious End of a Despot | Final ignominioso de un despota
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: The Trumpeter Who Returned to Dust The biography of Evo Morales Ayma (Orinoca-Oruro Canton, 1959) is recounted in the most mythological ways. Iván Canelas, one of his biographers and former minister, claimed that Evo followed the path of Jesus; in the manger of Plaza Murillo, they placed a big-headed baby as…
Divisions within the opposition obstruct unity projects | Divisiones en la oposición obstruyen proyectos de unidad
They look after individual interests’ Expressing regret over the increasingly frequent internal disputes within opposition political organizations, former rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), Waldo Albarracín, argued that such positions reveal personal interests and prevent the consolidation of unity projects to defeat the ruling party in the upcoming elections. Through his social…
The need for dollars and camouflage in works | La necesidad de dólares y el camuflaje en obras
Germán Huanca Luna, Urgente.bo: We repeat, the Social Community Productive Economic Model of the MAS does not work. The government takes advantage of the ignorance in economic matters of the social organizations and uses political blackmail for the approval of credits. Although the origin of the economic crisis and the lack of dollars has been…
Bolivian fraternity has vanished | La fraternidad boliviana se ha esfumado
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Brujula Digital: (Dis-united) Census and Social Decapitalization The customary ‘Census 2022’ took place two years later, and nobody knows for certain the reason behind the forced delay. But as it’s said about statistics – much like with bikinis – they show a lot, but not the most important. The Census 2024 will not…
Census during Morales’ administration was “useless” | Censo durante gestión de Morales fue “inservible”
El Diario: Quiroga asserts that the Census during Morales’ administration was “useless” There is a perception of Morales’ responsibility for the 2012 Census, a measurement lacking final results. Following the criticisms made by Evo Morales regarding the organization and budget allocated for the execution of the National Population and Housing Census 2024, former President Jorge…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 