Editorial, Los Tiempos: Former President Jeanine Áñez, imprisoned for two months, is becoming the symbol of the authoritarianism with which the MAS seeks to manage the State, of the party’s own contradictory internal dynamics and, also, of the inefficiency of a government that, six months after its inauguration, it is unable to steer the ship…
Category: Social Unrest
Involution, hand in hand with the masismo – Involución, de la mano del masismo
Editorial, El Diario: Community Justice and Dreadful Acts In the past week, the Bolivian population suffered a painful spiritual shock to learn that in an indigenous community a man was arrested, stripped, tortured and finally killed in a way that is nothing short of horrifying, since, previously, he was burned alive and executed by a…
Six months of government? – Seis meses de ¿gobierno?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Today is half a year [5/8/2021] since the Government of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), elected in October 2020, assumed the reins of the State, and as we verified three months ago in this same space, when They were fulfilling the first 100 days of the presidency of Luis Arce, their actions…
Galloping corruption! – ¡Corrupción galopante!
Editorial, El Diario: Official inefficiency accelerates corruption As unemployment has “face for everything,” it is said that having well-paid jobs in the informal economy is the easiest. Every position has “officials ready for anything” (and they queue at the doors of the boss). This has always been a prevailing reality at all times because, from…
Jurists ask that the request of the European Parliament be fulfilled – Juristas piden que se cumpla el pedido del Parlamento Europeo
Pagina Siete: They announce that they will follow up the processes against the detainees. The Ibero-American Jurists Association (Asjurib), through a statement, urged the Government of Bolivia to comply with the recommendations of the European Parliament with regard to respect for the independence of powers and the transparency of judicial processes. The organization also announced…
Indigenous corruption? – ¿Corrupción indígena?
Pedro Portugal, Pagina Siete: The «indigenous» corruption in the MAS It is strange that during the administration that should have done the most to vindicate the figure of the Indian, it was mostly stigmatized as corrupt, indecent and unreliable. The MAS came to the government on the crest of the culturalist wave that falsified the…
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