Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Bolivia-Brasil, asylees in the freezer A year ago, relations with Brazil are reduced to the sale of natural gas. And Bolivian political refugees arriving in the country. Besides the 500 Pando refugees who fled when the department was taken by force, there is now in that country, as refugees,…
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Bolivia facing anarchy: workers’ unions want to take over private companies!
El Diario reports: Private sector warns against manufacturing workers attempt to take over companies The Federation of Private Enterprises of La Paz took position against claims of factory leaders who intended to create social investment companies out of legal investments established in Bolivia. The private enterprise of La Paz expressed uncertainty about the recent statements…
Oxymoron? NO, just a Bolivian anti-corruption cop found guilty for extortion!
Shameful news about the head of anti-corruption being found guilty for extortion… another case where high level governmental officers under current ochlocracy are guilty. Follows the official report from the FBI, report from the Miami Herald and link to El Deber’s latest news, with a transcription of the talk between Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga, the extortionist…
Bolivia’s “bonanza” in the verge of fading out…
An Editorial from Los Tiempos: TOWARD THE END OF THE BONANZA All data indicate that we are witnessing the end of a boom cycle, so that urgent steps are needed to break the fall. After more than eight years, during which the good news on economic, followed one after another, to account for one of…
Bolivia’s naive foreign policy
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Naive foreign policy Bolivia now has deteriorated relations with USA, Brazil, Argentina and, one might say, also Peru, for the suspension of the presidential meeting that was to take place last week. The U.S. Charge d’affaires [DCM], Harry Mammott, just left for his country “for personal reasons”, which means…
The urge to remain in power by the socialists…
Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: ‘Magic Re-electionisms’ Studies point to the electoral political issue resorting to the presidents ‘magic re-electionism’ , referring to what writers called ‘Latin American magical realism’ of the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century. These leaders have the seal of authoritarian, charismatic, populist leaders, demagogues, dictators coated as democrats…
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