Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Moral degradation was his policy What happened in October and November 2019 was not only a crisis of excess patronage and state prebendalism, it not only implied the defense of the vote and democracy against authoritarianism that was on the way to a dictatorship; what Bolivia experienced was deeper than that,…
Tag: Corona virus
Daño – economic – Damage
Editorial, El Diario: Blockers caused serious economic damage to the country How much regret and indignation the strikes and blockades carried out by the COB and the masismo have caused in the community; but, to a great extent, the blockers have seriously damaged the national economy and placed the people in greater poverty than they…
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…
Derrotar – MAS – Defeat
Gregorio Lanza, Pagina Siete: Can MAS be beaten in the first round? The impacts of the conflict (painful because of the losses and reckless because of its objectives) and the survey published on August 18 in Página Siete give us some guidelines that could help to answer if it will be possible to beat the…
As Politicians Clashed, Bolivia’s Pandemic Death Rate Soared
Bolivia was mired in political turmoil when the pandemic hit. The response was chaotic. And the surge in deaths that followed was among the worst in the world, according to an analysis by The New York Times. By María Silvia Trigo, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Allison McCann Leer en español TARIJA, Bolivia — So many people were dying that the…
Stumbles – evo – Tropieza
Robert Brockmann, Pagina Siete: The Black Fortnight of the Boss In the absence of the political beasts that used to surround him during his rule, the Chieftain works with the liver. And so it goes. Why did he order his faithful henchman, Juan Carlos Huarachi, to block the roads, at the worst historically conceivable moment?…
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