Inadvisable opposition or government violence In the country there were always exalted political groups, dedicated to creating an atmosphere of intolerance and unrest. These groups indistinctly arise from the ruling party and the opposition. The election of the directors of the Santa Cruz parliamentary caucus was the cause of a brawl between the Union Juvenil…
Category: Social Unrest
Repartijas – Distributions
Claudia Eid, Los Tiempos: Of expenses and “absurd” distributions The one that was the Ministry of Cultures never worked quite well and that is because it is not understood what is the profile of who should lead that portfolio or, in reality, because the Government of the day is not really interested in culture. It…
¿Quien gobierna? – Who rules?
Jimena Costa, Pagina Siete: Internal petty war Many times, before the 2019 campaign, and certainly long before the pandemic, I heard people say that the worst thing that could happen to the opposition was to be a government. Economic crisis, fiscal deficit, tremendous external debt, accelerated decline in International Reserves, state-owned and rentier society, minimal…
Antidemocrático – Antidemocratic
Andres Gomez, Pagina Siete: Canceling the 2/3 is to segregate 45% of the country If the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) wants to leave its undemocratic past (2009-2019) and return to being a democratic party and of concertation (2020), why did it annul two thirds of the regulations of Deputies and Senators? You are likely to…
Retoma – Resumption
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Violations in the resumption of power The MAS won the elections with 55% of the votes and would have no need to regain power in a hostile and violent manner. Memorandums would have been enough to remove the officials who worked in the government of Jeanine Añez. In spite of it, ‘politically’-driven-job-pushing…
Accused of Terrorism and Pedophilia, Socialist Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia
Frances Martel, Breitbart: Socialist ex-President of Bolivia Evo Morales, who resigned last year after the Organization of American States (OAS) found evidence that his Movement Towards Socialist (MAS) party committed fraud in that year’s election, returned to the country on Monday following a year in exile. Following the OAS findings in early November 2019 —…
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