Ronald MacLean, Cabildeo Digital: If something has emerged from the political debate, it is the identification of the three aspects of the crisis that the next government will confront: health, the economy and corruption. By definition, corruption is the use of public means for private gain. State corruption occurs with greater intensity in authoritarian regimes…
Tag: democracy in peril
Falta de respeto – Disrespect
Editorial. Pagina Siete: The country deserves an explanation from Arce It is not enough for the candidate of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), Luis Arce Catacora, to say that the report of the Financial Investigations Unit (UIF) is a dirty war and to announce the beginning of a trial against his detractors. Arce was Minister…
Culpables – Culprits
Let’s be clear, who is to blame that we have had the worst government possible? Who raised the coca grower and the masismo to absolute power? So that we had ended up changing our name, our Constitution? So that the MAS continues to have votes, and now they tell us that maybe it will win…
As Bolivia election nears, could ‘Evonomics’ make a comeback?
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian voters, hit hard by political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic, are looking for some economic certainty ahead of elections on Oct. 18, which opinion polls suggest could boost the country’s socialists and see a return of ‘Evonomics’. The Andean country was one of Latin America’s steadiest economic…
Amedrentamiento – Intimidation
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Intimidation and the need for democracy The MAS, Evo Morales, David Choquehuanca, Luis Arce are using intimidation of the voters, they resort to fear so that the voter does not have the freedom to choose. These threats are not democratic, they bring out the authoritarianism and dictatorial tendencies of the MAS….
Mesa, Arce Catacora y Camacho
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: It is clear to all citizens that these elections are crucial for two reasons: if the MAS wins, we will have an authoritarian government for many years, and if the MAS wins, the first thing it will do is to radicalize its dictatorial nature and wipe out every vestige of opposition….
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