Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Behind the pandemic In the balance sheets on the economy, all countries point to the pandemic as the cause of the fall in growth indicators, but there are some that did not need the Chinese virus to enter the red figures. The list of those countries is worrying. The countries governed…
Tag: authoritarianism
Salud en peligro – Health in peril
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Anti-constitutional law The constitutionality of the laws seems to be outside the concerns of the Executive and the Legislature. This is evidenced in some of the provisions of the draft Sanitary Emergency Law, presented by the Government to the Assembly on Monday, and approved on Friday by the MAS bench in the…
Falsedad – Deceit
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The presidential speech When we listen to the arguments put forward by the masistas, we immediately perceive that the masista discourse moves in a closed circle; everything begins and ends in the indigenous-native-peasant sphere. From this interpretative horizon, the “people” is made up of all those who have an ethnic-original identification,…
Arce: manipulador – manipulative
Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Dismantle institutions or blue massacre President Luis Arce Catacora ordered public officials “to continue with the dismantling of the neoliberal model.” The words were pronounced on the same day that the last park rangers and qualified workers who take care of the main natural reserves in Bolivia were dismissed en masse…
2020, año absurdo, 2021, año preocupante – Absurd 2020, worrisome 2021
Editorial, El Diario: Surely the history of Bolivia will consider the past political year as the most negative and absurd of its existence due to the appalling management of political activities and the inefficiency of its eventual administrators. Therefore, it is not possible to stop remembering what happened during that stage, in such a way…
Polarizada – Bolivia – Polarized
Roberto Laserna, El Dia: Polarization and political conflict After having lived two very intense years in the country, with two national elections, violent conflicts, two changes of government and a transition heavily hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, we arrived at the end of 2020 with a collective sense of concern and fear. The country has…
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