By Judah Waxelbaum, The Jerusalem Post: Next month, Bolivians will head to the polls to elect a new government. These elections, postponed twice out of fear for voters’ well-being during a global pandemic, carry historical weight for Bolivia’s future. Bolivia ousted its longest-serving president, Evo Morales, in November 2019. Morales’s career is one of socialist authoritarianism, or a champion…
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Obituario del cínico – Obituary of the cynic
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: Memories of the present The collapse of the MAS and its leader must be calmly analyzed. Very few times in the history of the country has there been such an accelerated collapse that it threatens to create a very large void. Two Masista parliamentarians pronounced very clear sentences in recent days:…
Conspiradores – cocaleros – Conniving
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Two coca-growers’ strategies The pupil of the coca grower Morales, Andrónico Rodríguez, has tried to surprise by saying that, in his opinion, the best candidate for the presidency at this moment is Carlos Mesa. But what it has done is to show that the Argentine advisers that the coca grower has…
The MAS foreign media lobby – El lobby mediático extranjero del MAS
Mauricio Ochoa writes in El Diario: The MAS foreign media lobby The Movement to Socialism (MAS) has launched a smear media campaign against the government of Jeanine Áñez in international media linked to the left, such as Page12 in Argentina, Gap in Uruguay, Telesur in Venezuela, La Jornada in Mexico, and others. The task is…
Food crisis – Crisis alimentaria
Editorial from El Diario: Negative perspective of the food crisis The ousted government of Evo Morales-Álvaro García Linera & Co. left for the Bolivian people a very heavy legacy of debts, disorganization, corruption and others, but especially that heritage is that the national agriculture stopped producing food and, instead, it has to resort to massive…
The contribution of MAS – El aporte del MAS
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The contribution of MAS Since the coca grower Morales left the country, in a hurry, losing his underpants, it has been possible to appreciate the contribution his political party can make to the country. It has stopped concessional credits (very convenient) that the country could receive to attend to…
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