Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Exodus of taxpayers Much more important than the re-re-re-election of a leader born in Orinoca, but emerged from the illegal coca of the Chapare, is the mass exodus of Bolivian companies into the informal sector. It is that this has to do with the existence of the Bolivian state….
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivians Smack Down Evo Morales
David Bahr writes for The Weekly Standard: Bolivians Smack Down Evo Morales A rebuke to La Paz’s version of Hugo Chavez. Bolivians voted Sunday on an amendment that would allow sitting president Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019. Morales, who took office in 2006, officially ends his term in 2020. As…
The cowardly and shameful Chilean invasion of Antofagasta
Floren Sanabria writes in El Diario: The invasion of Antofagasta A week earlier, the Chilean troops were already in Calama and waiting for the order to fire. In the assault, they occupied the unguarded commercial port of Antofagasta. Through quick action showed that they had completed their careful preparations to invade and take over the…
Evo Morales denies running a narco state. Mounting evidence suggests otherwise.
Mary A. O’Grady writes for The Wall Street Journal: The Bolivia-Jihadist Axis of Cocaine Evo Morales denies running a narco state. Mounting evidence suggests otherwise. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY A Boko Haram massacre in a northeastern Nigerian village last month captured world-wide attention as it was reported that the terrorists burned children alive. Far less…
Economic boom no longer serves as a flag to MAS
Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: Political analysts view, according to the present Economic boom no longer serves as a flag to MAS Controversy. Erika Brockman believes that the population seemed to be anesthetized and now is becoming critical. Julián Ibarra sees the breakdown of government. The considered “economic bonanza” experienced by the country, no…
The world begins to realize the kind of government Bolivians have…
AP reports for ABC News: Scandal Emerges as Bolivia President Seeks Fourth Term By CARLOS VALDEZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS President Evo Morales had seemed exempt from the scandal that has besmirched much of South America’s left, but an alleged influence-peddling affair involving a woman who bore him a child comes at the most inopportune of moments….
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