Ernesto Estremadoiro Flores, El Deber: The real salary reaches 2005 levels and the quality of employment in companies falls Real remuneration in private companies reaches, on average, Bs1,574 in 2023, similar to Bs1,553 18 years ago. Experts see that job insecurity is increasing It’s noon and Miguel, 40, zigzags his car through the chaotic streets…
Tag: bad politics
Judicial coup? | ¿Golpe judicial?
Editorial, El Deber: Through a “constitutional declaration” – it was not a ruling or legal opinion – the judges of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) decided to remain in their positions until the judicial elections promote their successors. The so-called “self-extension”, from which the senior judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the Agro-Environmental…
Economic disaster | Descalabro económico
El Diario: Bolivia increasingly closer to economic disaster The fall in the Net International Reserves (RIN) of the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB), the shortage of dollars, fuel and the excessive rise in food prices, a situation that has been going on since the last administration, added to the growing external debt, show a complicated…
“In Bolivia the constitutional right to protest is misinterpreted” | “En Bolivia se malinterpreta el derecho constitucional a protestar”
El Diario: Although the right to protest is contemplated in the Political Constitution of the State (CPE), this provision is misinterpreted in the country, to block roads, which is not allowed in the Magna Carta, said constitutional lawyer, Williams Bascopé Laruta. “The Constitution guarantees the right to protest; but there is no right to block….
Beyond the MAS | Más allá del MAS
Maggy Talavera, Los Tiempos: The serious and profound crisis that the Santa Cruz institutionality faces today, starkly exposed in the absurd confrontation between equals, no less than in the Government, cannot be attributed exclusively to the MAS, either as fault or as merit, as they insist the leadership of Creemos and other sectors of civil…
Political and mental blockage | Bloqueo político y mental
Editorial, El Deber: Blocking roads is, without a doubt, the most undemocratic protest measure that can exist, and Bolivia can more than attest to the perverse consequences that this pressure measure has left throughout recent history. In August 2020, a general road blockade, in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, prevented the arrival of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 