Demetrio Reynolds, El Día: The useful vote versus the hard vote In this stubborn exercise at the polls, there is no great news. It seems that someone has taken us for the horses of the Ferris wheel, so we go round and round without advancing anywhere. Last year at this time we saw the same…
Tag: democracy in peril
mintió – evo – lied
Editorial, El Diario: Evo did not make any structural changes Luis Arce Catacora, MAS presidential candidate and former Minister of Economy of former President Evo Morales, protected by his ignorance of political economy, declared, in an abstract way, that during his time in power, the MAS made “structural changes” in reality of the country, but…
Estado fallido – Failed state
Oscar Espinosa, El Diario: Failed plurinational state The Plurinational State of Bolivia was instituted to create a state for President Evo Morales to rule as monarch. The MAS government during the almost 14 years of government dominated the three powers of the state: Executive, Legislative and Judicial and the Electoral Tribunal. In this way, he…
Moody’s cuts Bolivia to B2
Daniel Bases, Latin Finance: Ratings agency cites erosion of fiscal and currency reserve buffers, weak hydrocarbon sector Moody’s on Tuesday cut Bolivia’s foreign currency sovereign credit rating further deeper into junk territory, reducing the rating to B2 from B1, citing diminishing fiscal and foreign currency reserves. At the same time the rating was lowered, the…
Moral: Ausente – Absent
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The moral reconstruction of the nation The certainty that Morales was not willing to leave power and his perks was born (for years) not only from the monarchical sense that he had developed, but also from the conviction that he was predestined to run a country to his own liking. In…
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