Editorial from El Deber: Unlimited ambition of MAS The lack of commitment to Bolivians and the ambition for power shown by the assembly members, the militants and the MAS chief, Evo Morales, continues to surprise. The call to elections in three months, ignoring the deadlines that the Supreme Electoral Court clearly gave, and the mobilizations…
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evo’s bullshit – Sandeces evistas
The world is collapsing, even Argentina’s government wants to extend the quarantine, yet evo’s delusional and nauseating discourse has created, again, turmoil. El mundo se está derrumbando, incluso el gobierno de Argentina quiere extender la cuarentena, pero el discurso delirante y nauseabundo de evo ha creado, nuevamente, confusión. Bolivia cannot afford to send over seven…
Abel Bellido Córdoba: deserves respect! – merece respeto!
Abel reflects our daily conundrum and deserves our full respect. It is despicable that worthy people like him have to face threats of all sorts as this article describes (see a portion of his work at the bottom): Pagina Siete reports: Harassment and death threats against the illustrator of Página Siete The threats and insults…
After the virus – Después del virus
Editorial from Pagina Siete: The day after the virus If we are guided by the experience of other countries in their fight against the coronavirus, in the evolution of infections and deaths, Bolivia seems to be still at the beginning of the fight. There are reasons to believe that sensible measures have been taken in…
A biased IACHR – Una CIDH sesgada
Alfonso Gumucio writes in Pagina Siete: The MAS-IACHR dumbbell I am tempted to include this irony as an anecdote in Ripley’s book because “although you do not believe it”, such a perverse dumbbell has never been seen before between the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that depends on the OAS, and a party politician…
The Twin Contagions Facing Latin America
By OTTO REICH & ORLANDO GUTIERREZ for National Review: Central and South America must contend not with just coronavirus, but also with the resurgent temptations of socialism and Communism. Latin America is facing the simultaneous onslaught of two potent viruses: one biological, the other ideological. Many Latin-American nations lack efficient health-care systems and preventive measures to fight the former:…
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