Category: Social Unrest
Estupro – evo – Rape
Raúl Peñaranda, Pagina Siete: Rape and end of cycle The country is experiencing how the end of the cycle of Evo Morales’ leadership is ratified. More than 30 years of political career has begun to show obvious signs of exhaustion. Isolated, in a house in Liniers, in Buenos Aires, far from the Bolivian centers of…
Moral degradation – evo – Degradación moral
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Moral degradation was his policy What happened in October and November 2019 was not only a crisis of excess patronage and state prebendalism, it not only implied the defense of the vote and democracy against authoritarianism that was on the way to a dictatorship; what Bolivia experienced was deeper than that,…
Daño – economic – Damage
Editorial, El Diario: Blockers caused serious economic damage to the country How much regret and indignation the strikes and blockades carried out by the COB and the masismo have caused in the community; but, to a great extent, the blockers have seriously damaged the national economy and placed the people in greater poverty than they…
Derrotar – MAS – Defeat
Gregorio Lanza, Pagina Siete: Can MAS be beaten in the first round? The impacts of the conflict (painful because of the losses and reckless because of its objectives) and the survey published on August 18 in Página Siete give us some guidelines that could help to answer if it will be possible to beat the…
Bloqueos – Blockades
Rafael Archondo, Pagina Siete: Failed guide to unblock When the civic caravan headed towards Tiquipaya, the blockades had already vanished. They had no choice but to return to the headquarters of their functions. The stone and log carpets were left there, and without people, they became mere portable obstacles to the movement of motorized vehicles….
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