A bastard crisis – Una crisis bastarda

Manfredo Kempff, Los Tiempos: Nobody wants to be the legitimate father of the current crisis and they blame each other, when it is known that the natural parent was Evo Morales, and the one who is spoiling her is Arce Catacora who does not feel like the child’s father, and asks the promoter who, as…

The model is exhausted – El modelo está agotado

Gonzalo Chavez, Los Tiempos: Surplus income generators are exhausted. The hydrocarbons sector in 2014 produced 5,489 million dollars of income and has dropped to 2,289 million. The electricity sector does not generate surpluses. On the contrary, Bolivia has an offer of 3,500 MW and only consumes half. The rest is lost. The mining sector, although…

Bolivia está al borde de una crisis económica – Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis

The Economist: Tras dos décadas de políticas estatistas, el modelo económico del país está en quiebra “Dolares no faltan”, anuncia una pancarta en la página principal del banco central de Bolivia. “Nuestra economía es fuerte, solvente y estable”. La necesidad de decirlo sugiere lo contrario. Durante las últimas semanas, los bolivianos han estado tratando desesperadamente…

Fragmented ruling party – Partido de gobierno en fragmentación

Editorial, El Diario: A series of material actions and no less than political declarations have ended up demonstrating that the ruling party for 14 years –which claimed that it was not a tenant of the Government Palace, but its eternal owner– has been objectively showing, since two or three years ago, that is deeply divided,…