Here a few cartoons from Bolivian newspapers that portray our daily ordeal under this ochlocracy: From La Razon, June 26, 2013: Portrays how current central government relentlessly and in complete disrespect of mother nature and indigenous communities, which they say were to respect, still persists on cutting the TIPNIS in half, right through the middle…
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Disappointing behavior of Santa Cruz “leaders”…
Over the last eight years, Santa Cruz remained as the oasis, the hope that the ruling ochlocracy was going to be restrained… it was with great disappointment that the cruceño leadership surrendered to the coca-grower and populist political party… The following excerpts and links for full articles in Spanish, describe the sentiment of those Bolivians…
Current Bolivian pluri-multi-State is not to be trusted…
ANSA reports from Sao Paulo for Pagina Siete: Brazil SABOIA said that Bolivia “is the far West” The diplomat Eduardo Saboia, who helped the illegal leak of Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto of the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, said yesterday that Bolivia for Brazilian entrepreneurs is the “far West” and the more difficult of…
A corrupt person or a corrupt structure in today’s Bolivia?
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: A delinquent syndrome We were accustomed to live with corruption of public officials, but until recently it was relatively easy to distinguish between a corrupt official and a corrupt structure. When a “deal” was discovered, the image of the Government was affected as a whole, no doubt but it…
Current Bolivian president wants to remain ‘Ad vitam aeternam’!
Caros Cordero writes in El Deber: The lifetime Presidency It is not the first time that President Evo Morales says that the minority peasant indigenous sector of the country (see the results of the 2012 census in this regard), through the political instrument known as the MAS, has come to the Government Palace to stay…
What is and should be the role of the Bolivian Army?
El Deber’s editorial: Democracy and armed forces What Bolivia currently needs the least are the shocks affecting its institutional framework. Isn’t that precisely the nation is respecting rigorously its rules, much less. On the contrary, we know that there is a clear process of chaos and deterioration in the country’s institutions. What is serious is,…
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