The Bolivian Justice System under the scrutiny of the Human Rights Watch. Excerpt of Pagina Siete follow: THE 2014 REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION SPEAKS OF BOLIVIA Human Rights Watch denounces delays in the justice system The document states that some defendants suffered violations of due process and judicial persecution. It also denounces verbal attacks…
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What is going on with Bolivian centralization and decentralization policy?
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Centralization and decentralization policy Where do you walk towards to, Bolivia? To the re-centralization of the State or the political decentralization? Formally the new political Constitution of the State posits the existence of a State, but in the political analysis of the country, it is not enough to look…
Water as one of the most precious resource, neglected!
Agustin Saavedra writes in Pagina Siete: Shortcomings by the wastage of water According to the results of the latest census of population and housing published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), somewhat more than 800,000 homes registered the year of 2012 (30,08%) lack of health services. If we consider four inhabitants per dwelling average,…
Lack of and/or absence of sound Bolivian public policies result in a catastrophe!
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The catastrophic collapse of agricultural production The dramatic announcement that the import of rice increased fifteen times! last year, it has been the coup de grace for the non-traditional and traditional agriculture of our country. In addition, nobody thought that such an outcome would be the work of the…
Bolivian public transport 101
Juan Jose Toro writes in Los Tiempos: Quality: that is the question Still a few days away from Christmas 2013 but the Spanish language page made me a gift: taught me that the word “taxi” comes from “meter” which is the “unit which will be provided to some rental cars, which automatically dials the distance…
To understand the driving forces and motives of current Bolivian Ochlocracy!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: The Sinahota prophecy A document which became known in 2007 with the name of thesis of Sinahota, attributed to the ‘vice’ Álvaro García Linera, caused concern for a few weeks, but no one denied it. To check it now allows to warn that those who drafted the document were…
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