By H. C. F. Mansilla, Brújula Digital: Being generous, we can estimate that about 10,000 people read Brújula Digital and similar newspapers daily. Stretching generosity further, perhaps 100,000 readers across the country share the core ideas these media outlets propagate. This is less than 1% of Bolivia’s population of over 11 million. Though seemingly insignificant, this figure…
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Park rangers denounce retaliation: Marcos Uzquiano is dismissed after warning about illegal mining | Guardaparques denuncian represalias: Marcos Uzquiano es despedido tras alertar sobre minería ilegal
By Brujula Digital, El Dia: Uzquiano, known for his fight in defense of the environment, expressed his disapproval on social media. Marcos Uzquiano is removed from his position. The government has dismissed Marcos Uzquiano, head of Protection for the Beni Biological Station and director of the Bolivian Park Rangers Association, along with Guido García Carballo,…
The MAS keeps Camacho imprisoned out of revenge | El MAS mantiene preso a Camacho por venganza
By El Diario: On the second anniversary of his imprisonment, the head of the national Creemos caucus, Representative Tatiana Añez, stated that the Movement for Socialism (MAS) government keeps the elected governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, as a political prisoner in an act of political revenge. She also emphasized that the departmental authority…
Inflation, dollar shortages, and fuel scarcity: the new face of Bolivia | Inflación, escasez de dólares y falta de combustible, la nueva cara de Bolivia
By Opinion: 2024 marked the end of the economic boom of the early millennium. The Bolivian currency depreciated, and gasoline and diesel are in short supply. An alleged coup worsened the situation. In a report last year, the World Bank highlighted Bolivia as one of the three economies with the best economic growth projections in…
The merits of Evo and Arce | Los méritos de Evo y Arce
By Carlos Toranzo Roca, Brújula Digital: They rose to power together, with Evo only adopting indigenous and socialist ideas at the last minute. Early in his campaign, those were not his main themes, as he came from a unionist logic more closely tied to revolutionary nationalism, which is his true heritage, as is the Popular…
evo/luchin: squandered almost 90 billion dollars| dilapidaron casi 90 mil millones de dólares
Editorial, El Dia: The left and the economy Bolivia faces one of the worst economic crises in its recent history and the cause is only one: in less than 20 years, the governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora squandered almost 90 billion dollars (sum of the cash flow of the General Treasury of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 