By Brújula Digital: Ronald MacLean Recommends Renewing the Cabinet to Advance the Change of Model The former minister revived a controversial phrase attributed to Paz Estenssoro: “Hopefully people like you, even better if they respect you. But if they neither like nor respect you as a government, then they must fear you.” Ronald MacLean on…
Category: Social Unrest
Police Clash With Road Blockers | Choques Entre Policías y Bloqueadores
By Lourdes Molina, El Deber: Police and protesters resisting the operation reported clashing The “Humanitarian Corridor” operation began in the early hours of Saturday morning and was still ongoing around 8:30 a.m. At least 13 people are known to have been arrested. Although police and military forces cleared several access roads to the cities of…
The Price of Not Telling the Truth | El precio de no decir la verdad
Editorial, El Dia: Bolivia is paying the price for having chosen an ambiguous, anesthetizing and relativistic discourse in the face of an economic reality that demanded sincerity, firmness and structural decisions from day one. Rodrigo Paz came to power by building an intermediate narrative. He was not the open continuation of masismo, but neither was…
Population Rejects Vandalism and Refutes Government Inaction | Población rechaza vandalismo y refuta inacción del Gobierno
By El Diario: Amid the climate of uncertainty, residents of the city of La Paz expressed their rejection of the acts of vandalism carried out by radical groups that generated fear yesterday; therefore, they refuted the Government authorities’ inaction, a situation that puts the country’s stability at risk. Damage to public property, destruction of businesses,…
It Has Already Gone Too Far… | Ya está de buen tamaño…
By Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: It’s already gone too far that little union bosses keep paralyzing the country whenever they please. In a nation like ours, wrecked after the blue hurricane that destroyed everything and lasted 20 years, one cannot demand that, in six months, hydrocarbons suddenly become abundant, highways be left in perfect condition,…
Resilience Despite Seditious Blockades | Resiliencia pese a bloqueos sediciosos
By Carlos Corz, Vision 360: Faced with the road blockades, the Government asks those affected for resilience and assures that it will not allow a breakdown of the constitutional order The government of President Rodrigo Paz assured that the radical demonstrators are seeking police intervention in order to generate greater violence. Red ponchos at one of the…
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