Millions of dollars wasted and OUR roads remain a disaster!

Current Bolivian government bragged about their G-77+China boondoggle, unofficial expenditure figures are over $77 million dollars! While there are many, many other more important needs for our population. Thus, the demagogue and incompetence of this rulers are day by day more evident and frustrating! Transporters criticize the ABC for the condition of the north route…

Bolivian gov recognizes it is hard to stop mining encroachments…

ANF reports in El Deber: See problems to stop the occupations of mines Deputy Minister of Mining Policy, Eugenio Mendoza, acknowledged yesterday that the decree that is being developed to curb the encroachment of mines will not solve the problem in its entirety, but said that the Jurisdictional Mining (AJAM) Authority shall manage and reverse…

Is there rule of law under current Bolivian gov?!

Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Rule of Law? Is the rule of law a Western institution and therefore does not deserve to exist? Is the only rule of law the power of social movements and the discretion of the management of power by the government? Who, will accept the norm and continue? Who accepted…

Sanity at last in the Bolivian political spectrum

Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: Finally sanity Bolivia is an unpredictable country because when it seems everything is sinking, that hopes are lost, that is when wisdom arises, the sense of homeland, and the sensation of falling stops. It is what has happened in the last hours with the formation of the coalition called…

Current Bolivia gov’s outrageous wastefulness expenditures!

Francesco Zaratti writes in Pagina Siete: Austerity? Austere comes from a Latin and Greek root original literally means “rough, bitter to taste” and figuratively “mortified, penitent, remote and quiet,” according to a learned Alex Grijelmo column (El País, 01/03/2013). As I taught my children, to be austere is very different from being greedy or stingy,…