Bolivia’s path to urban resilience

The World Bank is naive when speaking about current government in Bolivia, they forget to mention the large quantity of civilians that were brought from the highlands to Beni and Pando, without any planning and proper logistics. evo offered land for free and made other promises that are still pending and those population are having…

First national strike in 12 years against evo the autocrat!

Raul Peñaranda writes in Pagina Siete: First national strike in 12 years What happened yesterday at the national level is unprecedented. In 12 years of the MAS government there had not been an event of that size, a national civic strike and blockades that completely paralyzed the country. Some 30 or 40 large and intermediate…

NO MORE evo!

Marcelo Ostria writes in El Deber: February 21st Two years ago, in a referendum called by the government, the majority of Bolivians voted against the proposal to change the constitutional norm that limits the continuous presidential reelection to a single time. The reaction of those who hold power was – and still is – anger;…

Bolivian economy, in a difficult 2018

An important editorial from El Deber: The economy, in a difficult year The beginning of 2018 has been very complicated for productive activities. Natural disasters have caused significant losses, especially to farmers in the east, and costly damage to the infrastructure of several municipalities. On the political and social level we have had an unstable…