By Renzo Abruzzese, El Deber: Media violence and state ideology A couple of decades ago, sitting down to watch the news was truly an intellectual act; social, cultural, political, and societal realities appeared on television screens, in oral and written press, in an organized, comprehensive, and mostly objective manner, with ethical standards that rarely hurt…
Category: Social Unrest
Caught in the System: Bolivia’s Judicial Predicament | Atrapado en el Sistema: La Problemática Judicial en Bolivia
By Luz Mendoza, Eju.tv: Summary Procedure: Innocents Forced to Accept Guilt to Stop Judicial Predation It often happens that due to the “evident miseries” of Bolivia’s penal system, after a series of unsuccessful attempts by the accused to prove their innocence —which they are not obligated to do—, faced with the system’s indifference and usually while…
Opposition: Unite or Perish! | Oposición: ¡Unirse o Perecer!
A necessary warning to the opposition By Gisela Derpic, Brujula Digital: In the 1990s, a profound political crisis incubated in Bolivia. Its signs were the coca growers’ mobilizations, the so-called “water war” in Cochabamba, and the blockades in the La Paz highlands between 2000 and 2001. Few noticed the depth of it. Most analysts and…
The rise in the dollar will increase external debt and imports | Repunte del dólar encarecerá deuda externa e importaciones
The price of the dollar is rising, causing global distress, so economists warn that this situation will increase external debt and imports for several countries, including Bolivia. Currently, according to the finance specialized site Bloomberg Line, countries burdened with external debt remain at risk, with Maldives and Bolivia particularly vulnerable if the strength of the…
Bolivia’s Urgent Mission: Defeat the MAS | La Misión Urgente de Bolivia: Derrotar al MAS
Priority number one: Expelling the MAS By Jimmy Ortiz, El Deber: Indeed, that is the number one priority of the Bolivian people: to expel this nefarious regime, an appendage of the transnational Socialism of the 21st Century, heir to the failed communism that fell with the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union,…
How much natural gas do we have left? | ¿Cuánto gas natural nos queda?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The volume of gas reserves in Bolivia is a mystery, at least for those who are not part of the state instances of the hydrocarbon sector. This lack of information violates Law 3740 of Sustainable Development of the Hydrocarbon Sector, enacted in August 2007, whose article 7 establishes that “YPFB, until March…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 