Rodolfo Eróstegui writes in Página Siete: 2020 salaries We are starting the 2020 management year and the workers’ unions made their salary aspirations known. This year, if the Government does the sensible things, we can remember it by the transformations that the possibilities of facing in the labor world have. With the new transitory administration…
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So … it was not a coup after all … he fled and now he merely wants to face any trial as former president …
Bolivia Congress Rubber Stamps November Resignation of Evo Morales Reuters reports via The New York Times: LA PAZ — Bolivia’s Congress on Tuesday formally accepted the November resignation of leftist leader Evo Morales and his deputy Álvaro García Linera, rubber stamping the end of his 14-year socialist administration as the South American country heads for…
Erasing Evo: Bolivian bid to remove his image draws backlash
Paola Flores reports for AP: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A man with a sledgehammer pounded at the bust of his country’s former leader adorning a huge sports stadium that his government had built and named after the then long-reigning president. Ministers from the current government applauded as the head came down. It was a…
Sincere chaos – El caos sincero
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Sincere chaos The escape was so unexpected, that the fugitives left everything as they had it, in an absolute disorder. They didn’t have time to at least put something under the carpets. It is that chaos was the law, the vocation. They were caught in underpants. They were not…
In Bolivia every vote is not worth the same – En Bolivia cada voto no vale igual
Iván Finot writes in Pagina Siete: In Bolivia every vote is not worth the same The democratic power rests on the principle that each citizen must have equal power to form the organs of the State. And in the constitution of the Legislative, although territorial differences must be taken into account, this principle should predominate….
Las milicias y la no retractación de Evo
Editorial Página Siete: Si algo bueno tiene el expresidente Evo Morales es que cuando se siente entre amigos dice la verdad sin medir las consecuencias de su retórica, tal como ocurrió cuando ordenó el cerco a las ciudades, primero en público siendo aún jefe de Estado, y luego en una conversación telefónica con un dirigente…
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