Stratfor reports: With President Evo Morales’ once immense support in decline, Bolivia’s next presidential election, in October 2019, risks becoming a flashpoint for political unrest — though Morales likely remains just popular enough to win re-election. In February 2016, Morales asked voters to remove presidential term limits from the constitution. After a bare majority said no, Morales…
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Ex-Bolivian president Mesa launches 2019 election bid
AFP reports for France 24: LA PAZ (AFP) – Bolivian ex-president Carlos Mesa on Saturday launched his candidacy for the 2019 election, in which he will face Evo Morales who will be seeking his fourth consecutive term. Analysts believe 65-year-old Mesa, a historian and journalist who previously governed Bolivia between 2003 and 2005, is the only hope…
Urgency to support national production
An Editorial from El Diario: Both at government levels and private entrepreneurs, declarations and formulated purposes in the sense of supporting national production are issued; it is said, almost pompously, that medium and small businesses will receive the necessary support to produce and, if possible, to grow and become large companies; but reality – always…
evo’s legacy: a fragile economy, our international reserves continue to fall down!
ANF reports for El Deber: ECONOMY International reserves fall by $1,354 million dollars International reserves mean savings that support the country’s economic stability. This year has presented a decline in relation to 2017 Net international reserves (NIR) continue in sharp decline and from December 2017 to September 21 this year recorded a fall of $1,354…
evo is the only responsible for the debacle at the ICJ, he must step out!
Ricardo Calla, very harsh but true opinion in Pagina Siete, photos from the internet: The time to resign In 2011, the increasingly authoritarian MAS government announced that it had decided to sue Chile before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of a new strategy to achieve the sovereign recovery of access to the…
They envision that the ICJ result will be haunting MAS
Rafael Veliz reports for El Deber: POLITICS For some analysts, it will affect the chances of Evo and also De Mesa The militancy of MAS recently proclaimed Evo Morales as its candidate in 2019 The cost of the diplomatic defeat of Bolivia in The Hague will be paid by the structure of the MAS and…
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