Many people in Bolivia believe the absurd excuse that current Bolivia president gave regarding his irresponsible decision to expel the greatest binational donor agency ever to assist Bolivia. The “backyard” reference made by Kerry, and used by the occasional president of Bolivia to expel USAID, is completely distorted, manipulated and confuses the people of Bolivia….
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian taxes 101
Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes for Los Tiempos: Taxes The State is the common house and, as all home, need money to support itself. That is the simplest explanation for the existence of taxes or taxes that are not anything other than the payments we make the inhabitants of the common house to keep it…
Bolivians living abroad will be able to vote…
Carlos Cordero Carraffa writes for El Deber: Bolivians will vote abroad The Electoral body recently reported that for the general elections of 2014, they will expand the universe of Bolivian voters abroad. This decision, apparently innocuous, ratifies perverse mechanisms of inequality and unfairness in the electoral competition between parties and introduces the intention of favouring…
A Bolivian cynic government!
HoyBolivia.com reports: Costas: Government manages with a high degree of cynicism Governor Rubén Costas said that the national Government accuses the [Catholic] bishops in the theft of the jewels of the Virgin of Copacabana, in an attempt to cause controversy and cover the real problems of the country. “As sometimes it [the government] disorients, even…
Bolivian presidential elections: Following the Venezuela example… UNITE!!!
Estefany Claros Aldana reports for El Dia: They will be the Democrat Social Movement Opponents gather in Sucre to create a party Elections. Unidad Nacional [National Unity, UN] and Movimiento Sin Miedo [Fearless Movement, MSM] leaders did not attend. The ruling party ensures that there is no candidate who stand up to Morales. Opponents of…
Bolivian sociopolitical conundrum: indigenous doctrines, decolonization?!
H. C. F. Mansilla superbly describes our lives, from El Dia: Decolonization and the sanctity of hatred The doctrines of decolonization in the Andean area see themselves as theoretical frameworks, basically progressives and leftists, consecrated at the same time to the socialist thought and the revitalization of a communitarianism humanist immersed in pre-Hispanic indigenous traditions….
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