Editorial from El Diario: Lean times’ threats After the era of good times that lasted fourteen years in the country and which was under the administration of the Evo Morales government, the current situation of the national economy faces a stage of economic and political crisis that tends to become the era of lean times….
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The “republiqueta” of the Chapare – La “republiqueta ” del Chapare
Juan Carlos Salazar writes in Pagina Siete: The “republiqueta” of the Chapare The word “republiqueta” does not appear in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Language, but historiography recognizes with that name the independent territories organized by guerrilla groups during the War of Independence of Upper Peru (1811-1825). Its characteristic was the institutional…
External and internal conspiracy against Bolivia – Conspiración externa e interna contra Bolivia
Editorial from El Diario: External and internal conspiracy against Bolivia The large criminal groups that have worldwide influence were seriously affected and wounded in their Achilles heel by the victorious insurrectionary popular uprising that last November brought about the overthrow of the autocrat government of Evo Morales, Álvaro García Linera & Co., related to the…
Bolivia Investigations Target Members of Evo Morales’ MAS Party
Max Radwin reports for InSight Crime: Since Bolivia’s botched elections in October 2019, numerous high-standing politicians and law enforcement officials associated with the Movement to Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo – MAS) party have fled the country or come under criminal investigation. Here, InSight Crime presents a roundup of prominent MAS figures connected to asylum claims or…
Yes, Bolivia’s 2019 election was problematic. Here’s why.
Irfan Nooruddin reports for The Washington Post: The last 5 percent of the vote count, which favored Morales substantially, is very different from the trendline for the other 95 percent of the count. On Oct. 20, 2019, Bolivia held a presidential election. To win on the first round, the winner had to secure an outright electoral…
They were more than 21 days of resistance – Fueron más de 21 días de resistencia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: They were more than 21 days of resistance The majority of Bolivians say they were 21 days of resistance, of popular consultation, of blockades, of stoppages, of demonstrations, of little ropes; many put on the hero costume for their actions in those three weeks. All that is well, it…
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