From InSight Crime: Scandal-Plagued Bolivia Trumpets Drug Seizure Figures Written by Arron Daugherty Bolivia’s government has touted an increase in drug seizures as a sign of improving interdiction capabilities, while an ongoing scandal involving President Evo Morales continues to unfold. In the first two months of 2016, Bolivia’s Special Fighting Force Against Drug Trafficking (Fuerza…
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Bolivia’s current presidential scandal goes beyond sex
From the Miami Herald: Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s scandal goes beyond sex The scandal over Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales’ secret love affair, with a young woman with whom he had a child who the president says has died, but the woman says is alive, is making headlines throughout Latin America. But that’s the least outrageous…
Worldwide embarrassment: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals
CNN reports: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. First, the Bolivian leader had to accept defeat in a referendum making his current presidential term his last, and now he is at the center of a scandal that reads like a Bolivian…
Lets put a stop to ochlocracy, lets face Bolivia’s new era!
Andres Oppenheimer writes about Bolivia [bold] in the Miami Herald: The Oppenheimer Report: Latin America’s new era Highlights Opposition win in Bolivia’s Feb. 21 referendum was a new sign of the demise of leftist populism in the region Populist leaders have lost elections in Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia, and are in trouble in Ecuador and…
Bolivia president blames ‘conspiracy’ for loss – but weary voters may be to blame
Jonathan Watts writes for The Guardian: Bolivia president blames ‘conspiracy’ for loss – but weary voters may be to blame Rather than a broad ideological shift or dirty tactics by the opposition, Evo Morales’s defeat probably has more to do with scandals and rising expectations. Another election, another loss for a leftwing government in Latin…
The exodus of Bolivian taxpayers or their relentless annihilation?!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Exodus of taxpayers Much more important than the re-re-re-election of a leader born in Orinoca, but emerged from the illegal coca of the Chapare, is the mass exodus of Bolivian companies into the informal sector. It is that this has to do with the existence of the Bolivian state….
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