Editorial, Los Tiempos: One blockade after another Although the country is still immersed in the economic crisis, which began to manifest itself in 2014, and in the health crisis, since an imminent fifth wave of the pandemic is already announced, the road blockade has reappeared on the public agenda as a form of pressure so…
Tag: authoritarianism
Serious structural flaws in the Justice | Fallas estructurales graves en la Justicia
Editorial, El Deber: Dramatic report of the UN rapporteur All of us Bolivians knew it, but a foreign professional with the position of special rapporteur of the United Nations had to come to carry out an observation mission and several interviews to take away a good amount of information, the same information that today allows…
Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime AP in La Paz Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student – and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being…
Masista legacy | Legado masista
Juan Carlos Ferreyra, El Diario: Bolivia is deinstitutionalized As never before, our country today is totally deinstitutionalized. Practically a majority of the public institutions that make up the national State are with interim authorities or with authorities finger-pointed by the official party that governs us. A pathetic case is the Ombudsman’s Office, which for six…
Masista scoundrel – Sinvergüenzura masista
Monica Olmos, Los Tiempos: I declare myself indignant The 52-year-old student Max Mendoza entered the university in 1990 (32 years ago), passed two subjects and failed 197. He enjoys a monthly salary paid with public money of more than 3,000 dollars, insurance and AFP. The Mendoza case is not the only one, there are several…
Narcotraffic = MASismo
Editorial, El Deber: Intolerable drug trafficking in Bolivia The tentacles of drug trafficking spread out of control in Bolivia. The news related to the subject is almost daily, some due to the discovery of packages (increasingly larger) of cocaine; others for crimes or settling scores. What has just happened with some members of the Ayoreo…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 