Brendan O’Boyle reports for Americas Quarterly: Fear, vendettas, and intrigue risk driving Bolivia’s presidential race more than the country’s everyday problems. Following Bolivia’s worst political crisis in more than a decade, many observers hoped that the upcoming May 3 elections would allow the country to turn the page. But former president Evo Morales continues to loom…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivia elections: Time for consistency from Christian candidates
Benedict Mayaki reports for Vatican News: Fr. José Fuentes urges politicians to adopt Christian values as they campaign ahead of Bolivia’s general elections. The General Secretary of the Bolivian Bishop’s Conference, Fr. José Fuentes Cano, has called on the candidates of the Bolivian presidential elections, slated for May 3, 2020, to concentrate more on the…
La infinita estupidez de las fuerzas opositoras al MAS
Rolando Tellería escribe en Página Siete: Las fuerzas opositoras al Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) que hoy reflotan gracias al movimiento ciudadano, que con una tenaz e intensa lucha en las calles logró derrotar al caudillo, nunca pudieron, desde 2005, enfrentar a Evo Morales en las urnas. Es más, son coautores de ese abominable engendro. Con…
It is urgent to make a turn in the energy matrix – Urge dar un giro a la matriz energética
Ismael Luna reports in El Dia: It is urgent to make a turn in the energy matrix Note. The need to do so arises from the analysis that the country is increasingly dependent on the importation of liquid fuels: diesel and gasoline In a historical context of the last 14 years of scarce hydrocarbon exploration,…
Unmasking the MAS – Desenmascarando al masismo
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Propaganda spending The government of Jeanine Áñez is now facing a difficult dilemma. To face the cynicism of the masistas, she would need to keep the millionaire propaganda budget, but she can’t do it because she must reduce spending to reduce the fiscal deficit and pay salaries. A masista…
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