Radina Gigova reports for CNN: (CNN) The US and Brazil aren’t the only countries where political leaders have appeared to contradict the advice of medical experts. In Bolivia, several lawmakers are fighting to recognize a toxic cleaning agent as a Covid-19 therapy, even as health officials warn it could be deadly. In the city of…
Tag: bad politics
Who now governs the country? – ¿Quién gobierna ahora el país?
Editorial from El Diario: Who now governs the country? With each passing day, the characteristics of national political life take on remarkable edges that produce vertigo. Indeed, it can be seen that in the central government two powers coexist with antagonistic tendencies that face each other and each fight for dominance, the absolute control of…
A wantonness Legislative Assembly – Una Asamblea Legislativa desenfrenada
Marcelo Ostria writes in El Deber: A wantonness Legislative Assembly One of the first measures of the government of President Jeanine Añez was to respect national institutions; among them, the administration of justice and the continuity and extension of the term of the parliamentarians elected in previous elections. This attitude, aimed at the continuity of…
Who finances the MAS coup – Quién financia el golpe del MAS
Editorial from El Diario: Who finances the MAS coup It is incredible, but true. The coup launched by the party defenestrated from power by the people is financed with money from the State and the government. Funds that are considerable enter them systematically month after month and they spend on a conspiracy that comes from…
evo: the archetype of the bad guy – el arquetipo del mal tipo
Marcelo Miranda writes in El Diario: Evo Morales, the archetype of the bad guy Evo Morales was never what a good person is meant to be, since his beginnings as a member of the cocalero movement in the Chapare he already brought out his intransigence and his clumsy and abusive way of doing politics, that…
The permanent Bolivian crisis – La permanente crisis boliviana
Editorial from El Dia: The permanent Bolivian crisis Does anyone remember when Bolivia was free of ultimatums? When was it that we were without threats? When could we get away from the precipice, without being about to take the step towards the abyss? When could we dream of leaving the old stigma of an infeasible…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 