Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete: Reasons for the victory of MAS One of the reasons for the high MAS vote in last Sunday’s elections is that, in addition to support for candidate Luis Arce, there was a “punishment vote” against the transitional government. Hundreds of thousands of people who had supported Evo Morales’s party in the…
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Bolivian president-elect: “no role” for the winning party leader Evo Morales currently exiled in Argentina
Merco Press: Bolivia’s president-elect Luis Arce said on Tuesday that there was “no role” in his government for socialist party leader Evo Morales, who governed for almost 14 years before resigning under pressure last year and fleeing the country. Arce swept to power in a Sunday ballot, with the official count – technically still underway…
¿Y ahora qué? – Now, what?
Editorial, El Diario: Pathetic inheritance for the new government Whichever new government holds the reins of the State in its hands, it will encounter great economic and, therefore, social and political difficulties. The waste of the last fourteen years by the mismanagement of the MAS of Evo Morales-García Linera reaches incredible proportions. Added to that…
MÁS de lo mismo – MAS of the same
Bolivia lost‼️ The masismo faces a government without “easy money” … our future looks more like Venezuela…. Bolivia perdió‼️ El masismo enfrenta un gobierno sin “dinero fácil” … nuestro futuro se parece más a Venezuela …
Manipulación Descarada – Shameless Manipulation
Editorial, Página Siete: The joking mood of the censorship of ministers One of the biggest distortions that the Bolivian political system has had in recent months is that the MAS had maintained control over two-thirds of the Legislative. As it was not possible, from the constitutional and democratic point of view, to close the Congress,…
Bolivia’s election is a test for Latin American socialism — and democracy
Monica Machicao and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Half a century after the execution of leftist firebrand Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the Bolivian jungle, the forces of the political right and left are once again waging ideological war in this impoverished Andean nation. Bolivia is heading toward a bitterly disputed presidential…
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