Editorial, Pagina Siete: The government of President Luis Arce promotes a package of laws that aims to centralize power (even more) in the Executive Branch, which includes the control of much of the personal information of Bolivian citizens. The objective could not be more alarming and sinister. Among all of them, the most controversial is…
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Fue pacificación, no golpe – It was pacification, not coup
Pagina Siete: In four paragraphs, the European Union was forceful in stating yesterday that in the meetings that were held at the Bolivian Catholic University (UCB) in November 2019, what was sought was a peaceful solution to the political and social crisis that the country was experiencing and in in no case a rupture of…
Bolivia: Una sola bandera – A single flag
Franz Barrios, Pagina Siete: Neither «wiphala», nor «flower of the patujú», Bolivian tricolor! After the formal acts of the celebration of the Santa Cruz anniversary, the regime threatened to criminally prosecute several citizens for the criminal offense of “Outrage to national symbols” (Art. 129 Penal Code), because they would have “withdrawn the wiphala from a…
EU Rejects La Paz Allegations Linking Its Envoy To Political Crisis In Bolivia
The EU External Action Service (EEAS) on Thursday dismissed accusations by Bolivian President Luis Arce that the bloc’s former envoy to the Latin American nation partook in the anti-constitutional events during the 2019 political crisis MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 30th September, 2021) The EU External Action Service (EEAS) on Thursday dismissed accusations by…
Discurso y acciones del Vice – Speech and actions of the VP
Pagina Siete: The striking and hopeful messages of reconciliation from Vice President David Choquehuanca were devalued in less than a year. Apart from having placed several Masistas from the radical wing in the foreign service, in August he had already given a signal that his idea of reconciliation also included imposing the rhetoric of the…
Se aplazó Arce – Arce flunked
Pablo Peralta, Página Siete: Confidence in Arce drops, as does the rating of his management The percentage of respondents who rate their trust in the President as “Good” or “Very good” fell from 33.8% to 29.5%. The recent survey that Cultura Interactiva carried out for Página Siete detects that confidence in President Luis Arce decreased,…
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