Editorial, Los Tiempos: Symbolic blue chair Symbolic is the color, blue, of the chair that the head of the Movement for Socialism received yesterday on his head, during an extended session of that party, in the Chapare, where its national and departmental leaders tried to define the candidacies for the governors of the nine departments…
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Evo Morales silletazo provokes criticism and memes in Bolivia
By Desk, Inspired Traveler [I included pics, and inserted them along this article as they appeared in social media]: La Paz, 15 Dec (EFE) .- The controversy was served in Bolivia following the silletazo against former President Evo Morales at a meeting of his party, with reactions ranging from criticism, concern and threats of expulsion…
Ni experto ni competente – Neither expert nor proficient
Editorial, El Deber: Worrying government economic measures The Government has defined a package of economic measures that is worrying for the national productive sector. On the one hand, the bill for the tax on large fortunes and the reduction of the Value Added Tax are under treatment. On the other hand, seven economic decrees of…
A enmendar se dijo – Time to amend
Ernesto Estremadoiro, El Deber: They anticipate that Arce will have to make unpopular decisions to clean up the State accounts Considered the architect of the “Bolivian miracle,” the president must now administer a country with a very different situation from the boom time that Bolivia experienced in the last decade Torino Economics, the economic research…
Engañosos – masistas – Misleading
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Don’t be silly It turns out, from everything we hear and read, that Bolivians do not now know what a coup is. Experts in the field until recently, we tried to confuse young people of what it is like to overthrow a president through a coup. It happens that the masistas…
Se acabó – It’s over
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: End of the oil companies The reign of oil has lasted 161 years until now but it goes out like a candle, just like the reign of mineral coal, which has lasted until now for 260 years and goes out like an ember. According to Antonio Escohotado, a Spanish researcher, in…
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