Pagina Siete: Call me graduate “What are the graduates going to teach us? They are going to teach us to steal! We can teach them, they are very lazy”. With those words, Vice President David Choquehuanca has again influenced the division of Bolivians. Who are “they” and who are “we”, according to the VP’s speech?…
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Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: A little bit of hope Not everything is bad in Bolivia, although the bad outweighs the good by far. But the good things, however few they may be, have to be commented on, because otherwise we would live in permanent unease that would make us a more bitter and frustrated nation…
Human rights violations in 2019 – Vulneraciones a los DDHH en 2019
Alejandro Almaraz, Roberto Laserna, Amparo Carvajal, Óscar Campanini y Melita del Carpio. | LOS TIEMPOS Los Tiempos: “The story of a people”: they successfully presented the book on human rights violations in 2019 With the presence of representatives of civil society organizations, the book Story of a People: Human Rights and Democratic Resistance in 2019,…
Masista hordes despise and destroy our biodiversity – Hordas masistas desprecian y destruyen nuestra biodiversidad
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Dispute over gold and land The violence that has been unleashed in the town of Chushuara, in Apolo, in La Paz, is not isolated and, on the contrary, reveals a plot of interests of corporate groups that is outside the control of the State. And that sometimes has the State, paradoxically, as…
Masista contempt for Human Rights – Desprecio masista por los Derechos Humanos
Juan Jose Toro, Pagina Siete: Rotten ombudsman The Ombudsman is an institution, or authority, generally established in the constitutions, whose function is to guarantee the rights of citizens against the abuses of political powers. In other words, its essence is to defend the citizen from public powers. When there was a debate to create this…
It is not a good time for a double Christmas bonus or salary increase – No es buen momento para doble aguinaldo o incremento salarial
El Diario: Minister Marcelo Montenegro and the president of the BCB agreed on the goal of GDP growth of 5.1%, a fiscal deficit of 8.5% of GDP and an inflation rate of around 3.3%. The general manager of IBCE, Gary Rodríguez, agreed with the private businessmen to freeze the salary increase because the purchasing power…
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