By El Diario: Leader of the Drivers’ Confederation says The leader of the National Confederation of Drivers of Bolivia, Víctor Tarqui, stated yesterday that only 50% of the vehicle fleet is operating due to the lack of diesel, and said the situation has already become unsustainable for the sector. “50% of the vehicle fleet cannot…
Category: Social Unrest
The Cynicism in MAS | El cinismo en el MAS
By Carlos Toranzo, Brújula Digital: Evo Morales blocked the country’s roads. What did he want? According to him: the enforcement of the Constitution, a clean and independent judiciary, no judicial coup, that the government not use the justice system as a political weapon against the opposition, and that there be rule of law. It takes…
UNIVERSAL VALUES: FREEDOM? | VALORES UNIVERSALES: ¿LA LIBERTAD?
By Oscar Antezana: It seems the world—cultures and societies—is changing faster and faster. Definitions or degrees of acceptance of freedom, solidarity, democracy, respect, equity, and security, among others, are not the same as they were, at least, 40–50 years ago. For Western countries, in general, freedom is a universal right—if not the primary one; but…
¿Y ahora Qué? | Now What?
Por Pensamientos Bolivianos: [Si quiere escuchar el resumen, use este link, gracias] ¿Qué sigue, Bolivia? El silenciamiento de los liberales clásicos Dunn y Saravia y la lucha por un país al borde del abismo Ayer, Bolivia perdió a dos de sus figuras políticas más prometedoras—no en las urnas, sino ante la oscura maquinaria de un…
They are destroying Bolivia intentionally | Están destruyendo Bolivia, de manera intencionada
By Jimmy Ortiz, El Deber: I have no doubt that Bolivia is being deliberately destroyed, following the mandates of the transnational 21st Century Socialism (SS XXI), just as they did in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua—and failed to do in Argentina. It is the classic communist/socialist strategy, aimed at keeping the people poor or miserable, to…
Exclusion zone, without elections, without the State, without law | Zona de exclusión, sin elecciones, sin Estado, sin ley
By El Dia: Evo Morales’ Grand Prize Evo Morales no longer needs to be a candidate. If he manages to consolidate Chapare as an exclusion zone—without elections, without the State, without law—he will have gained much more: he will become the lifelong emperor of a territory where the Constitution does not apply, the police do…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 