Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The presidential speech When we listen to the arguments put forward by the masistas, we immediately perceive that the masista discourse moves in a closed circle; everything begins and ends in the indigenous-native-peasant sphere. From this interpretative horizon, the “people” is made up of all those who have an ethnic-original identification,…
Tag: corruption in public office
Arce: manipulador – manipulative
Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Dismantle institutions or blue massacre President Luis Arce Catacora ordered public officials “to continue with the dismantling of the neoliberal model.” The words were pronounced on the same day that the last park rangers and qualified workers who take care of the main natural reserves in Bolivia were dismissed en masse…
Perniciosa demagogia – Pernicious demagogy
Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: Democracy in decline I imagine the discomfort – even outrage – that a title like this can cause among true Democrats. Worse if it comes from a subject like me who cannot display such ostentatious democratic credentials as those of those who have taken over the term. But it does not…
Desempleo – Unemployment
Editorial, El Diario: Growing unemployment Numerous economic aspects inherited by the government of President Luis Arce Catacora have determined that unemployment in the country, already existing for years, continues to grow even more and that for new causes it acquires a level that is still worrying and even alarming. This problem has already been detected…
Absurdos masistas – Gov’s absurdities
Pagina Siete: Pay for not working The Inti Raymi company has denounced that, in record time, the justice system has accepted that 21 of its former employees be immediately reinstated to their functions. The problem is that they have no functions to fulfill. The Inti Raymi gold deposits were depleted in 2015 and the company’s…
El dilema – The dilemma
Rafael Sosa, El Dia: Health and economy How to find the balance? Providing information on the prevention of Covid-19 and testing campaigns can become much more effective measures than rigid quarantines in Bolivia, where there is talk of emphasizing economic reactivation, said Pablo Mendieta, an economist at the Bolivian Center for Economic Studies of the…
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