By Brújula Digital: Null votes reached 19.29% and blank votes 2.45%. With these results, Paz and Quiroga will face each other in a runoff scheduled for October 19 of this year. Image from Sirepre at 95.41% of the quick vote count. Photo: Screenshot. With 95.41% of the tally sheets processed by the Preliminary Results System…
Elecciones presidenciales en Bolivia: lo que hay que saber | What to Know About Bolivia’s Presidential Election
Por Genevieve Glatsky, The New York Times: Una crisis económica y las luchas internas en el partido de izquierda que ha dominado la política boliviana en los últimos años podrían allanar el camino para el primer presidente de derecha en décadas. Bolivia celebra el domingo unas elecciones presidenciales que, según muchos analistas, terminarán con las…
Conteo oficial en Bolivia muestra al centrista Rodrigo Paz en inesperada ventaja | Official Bolivia presidential count shows centrist Rodrigo Paz in surprise lead
Por Lucinda Elliott and Monica Machicao, Reuters: LA PAZ, 17 ago (Reuters) – Los primeros resultados oficiales en Bolivia mostraron al centrista Rodrigo Paz, del Partido Demócrata Cristiano, liderando la elección presidencial del domingo con un sorpresivo 32,04% de los votos, según el tribunal electoral del país. El expresidente conservador Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, de la…
Diplomacy in Times of Fiscal Adjustment: Should Embassies Be Closed? | Diplomacia en tiempos de ajuste fiscal: ¿Hay que cerrar embajadas?
By Windsor Hernani, Visión 360: The establishment of diplomatic missions between two states is not an act of ideological loyalty, personal sympathy between heads of state, nor a matter of political improvisation. Bolivia has been facing a recurring fiscal deficit for over eleven years, an external debt surpassing $13 billion, and a steady loss of…
What Were We Thinking 20 Years Ago | En qué pensábamos hace 20 años
Editorial, El Día: We are what we think, and in Bolivia we have spent too many years trapped in a comfortable but false narrative. A narrative that, for decades, convinced us that being on the left meant being on the right side of history; that the State had to be big, generous, and omnipresent; that…
The Church’s contribution to the construction of Bolivia | El aporte de la Iglesia a la construcción de Bolivia
By Francesco Zaratti: On the Bicentenary of Bolivia’s independence, several aspects of the republican life of the country that Simon Bolívar was forced to found were highlighted. I, too, an adopted son of this land, wanted to honor that date, together with Susana Anaya, by reviewing the sources of energy that have supported Bolivia’s development….
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 