Official demagogy 👎🏽 Demagogia oficialista

Editorial, Los Tiempos: The statements of some Government authorities regarding current issues related to the management of the State, events that affect the population and political problems, suggest that the ruling party does not care about the deterioration of the trust that Bolivians have in their rulers. This deterioration is reflected in three surveys carried…

Reporting prohibited 🤦🏻‍♂️ Prohibido informar

Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Although the MAS government is the one that allocates the largest fortunes to propaganda, which would make one believe that it appreciates the dissemination of information, at the same time it prohibits the release of news. It is a vocation that began in 2006, when it ordered YPFB to discontinue monthly…

Park rangers request an audience with Arce to report attacks, processes and extortion | Guardaparques piden audiencia con Arce para denunciar agresiones, procesos y extorsiones

Erbol, Correo del Sur: In the letter sent to the President they cite the case of two park rangers prosecuted for a criminal action brought about by a cooperative miner who was prevented from entering a protected area to exploit gold In a letter addressed to President Luis Arce, the park rangers of protected areas…

Record levels in deforestation | Niveles récord de deforestación

Jonathan Reynolds, Mongabay: Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary) In both national and multilateral fora, Bolivia is increasingly showing its reluctance to curb deforestation. President Luis Arce, soon to be entering the penultimate year of his term, has built up a poor environmental record, supporting the unbridled growth of a largely extractive economy,…

How long will we have to put up with Luis Arce’s speeches? | ¿Hasta cuándo tendremos que aguantar los discursos de Luis Arce?

Antonio Saravia, Brujula Digital: Luis Arce’s speech this past Wednesday, November 8, confirms that the president lives on another planet. Nothing he said in his hour-long rant even remotely resembles the reality that Bolivians face every day. The president insists that “we are on the right track” when shortages, queues, lack of dollars, informality and…

Day of Democratic Reaffirmation | Día de la Reafirmación Democrática

El Diario: Four years after Morales’ resignation Conade and platforms remember the Day of Democratic Reaffirmation Population mobilized after electoral fraud, 2019. Remembering that in 2019, the government of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) attempted to impose its will on the entire Bolivian society, through the cult of personality, establishing a corporate-based totalitarian regime, under…