Brendan O’Boyle, Americas Quarterly: Seventeen years after becoming president during a severe political crisis, Mesa may now return to the job. In 2003, Bolivia was in crisis. A bloody crackdown on weeks of protests had forced President Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada to flee the country. In his place stepped Vice President Carlos Mesa Gisbert,…
Error del gobierno – Government Failure
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: 2019 Fire Scar Matches INRA Approved Settlements Until last year, the National Agrarian Reform Institute approved 1,455 new communities in the country, 945 in the Santa Cruz department. Most of them in Chiquitania Cicatriz de incendios de 2019 coincide con los asentamientos aprobados por el INRA Hasta el año pasado, el…
Estupro y comunicación – Rape and communication
Edgar Ramos, El Diario: Evo, Alejandro Entrambasaguas and the science of communication 1.- The Evo-Rape case – under police investigation – may be remembered in the future as the “Bolivian Watergate with delayed effect,” in memory of journalists Woodward and Bernstein, whose insightful investigation led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon, in August…
Delitos – evo – Crimes
El Diario: Representative Luis Felipe Dorado MAS leadership covers up the crimes of Evo Morales The representative for the Democratic Unity (UD), Luis Felipe Dorado, pointed out that the Movement to Socialism (MAS) covers up the crimes of Evo Morales with an complicit silence that his leadership keeps by not revealing which people from the…
Don’t shed a tear for the ex-populist leaders of Ecuador and Bolivia
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald (español): Don’t shed any tears for the former leftist populist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, both of whom were recently prohibited from running for office in their respective countries; they are getting a taste of their own medicine. During their terms in office, the two former…
COVID-19 impactará el sistema educativo de América Latina durante décadas
Andres Oppenheimer, el Nuevo Herald: Cuando me preguntan si América latina saldrá pronto de su actual crisis económica, suelo responder que el daño económico causado por la pandemia del coronavirus probablemente sera relativamente corto, pero el daño educativo podría durar décadas. A corto plazo, es probable que las economías latinoamericanas comiencen a recuperarse pronto. Las…
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