ANF reports in El Deber: See problems to stop the occupations of mines Deputy Minister of Mining Policy, Eugenio Mendoza, acknowledged yesterday that the decree that is being developed to curb the encroachment of mines will not solve the problem in its entirety, but said that the Jurisdictional Mining (AJAM) Authority shall manage and reverse…
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Is there rule of law under current Bolivian gov?!
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Rule of Law? Is the rule of law a Western institution and therefore does not deserve to exist? Is the only rule of law the power of social movements and the discretion of the management of power by the government? Who, will accept the norm and continue? Who accepted…
Bolivian politics 2014: Signs of better political times
Susana Seleme writes in El Dia: Susana responses Signs of better political times 1) the first binomial for the October elections was formed and is the result of a partnership. What is your analysis? All political and sociological analysis must be based not only on the immediate present, but successive political events in the recent…
Sanity at last in the Bolivian political spectrum
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: Finally sanity Bolivia is an unpredictable country because when it seems everything is sinking, that hopes are lost, that is when wisdom arises, the sense of homeland, and the sensation of falling stops. It is what has happened in the last hours with the formation of the coalition called…
Bolivian debate over corruption and wastefulness of current ruling political party
Alejandro Mallea writes in El Diario: Debate on corruption and wastefulness In Bolivia there were times of economic prosperity of the State, by the rising prices of natural resources in the international markets. If the leaders of those years managed such monies in a way that were properly administered, must have been in good faith…
Current Bolivia gov’s outrageous wastefulness expenditures!
Francesco Zaratti writes in Pagina Siete: Austerity? Austere comes from a Latin and Greek root original literally means “rough, bitter to taste” and figuratively “mortified, penitent, remote and quiet,” according to a learned Alex Grijelmo column (El País, 01/03/2013). As I taught my children, to be austere is very different from being greedy or stingy,…
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