Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes in Los Tiempos: Lying Country Talk about the sad role that the National Institute of Statistics (INE) had in the last census is already useless. The INEfficiency of the INE subtracted its credibility, period. From here forward, we will not believe it as before. But, beyond that truth, the truth…
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Are there too many impostors in Bolivia?
Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber: Impostors and impostures The saying, “so much falls the drop into stone, until finally breaks it”. And I say, it seems that Bolivians are made of solid stone, because while deluge fall over us, not drops, nothing breaks us. I use the saying figuratively: the drop is an imposture…
Bolivian central gov’s aggression still unsolved: TIPNIS – Chaparina
A good editorial from El Deber: Chaparina, new guidelines September will mark two years of violent police repression against the marchers in the Beni town of Chaparina, against Tipnis defenders, but there is still no guilty parties found. We still remember the Vice President of the State say that he knows who gave the order…
We are majority
Carlos Cordero writes in El Deber: We are majority The final 2012 census data is made public nine months after the socio-demographic information was retrieved and quickly caused controversy along and across the country, as well as confusion in our leaders and all kinds of babbling in Indigenismo ideologues. While the country reacted outraged by…
Bolivia is NOT growing at 6.5% – cheap blind demagogue politics!
Ismael Luna reports for El Dia: According to the Government feels the bonanza Analysts see doubts in the growth of 6.5 % Index. The data shows that between 2005-2012, extreme poverty has fallen by 22%. They noted the absence of other reports. Economic growth, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Economy and…
Undeniably, Bolivia is mestizo!!
Humberto Vacaflor G. writes in El Diario: Explosion of mestizos Another surprise that contain the results of the 2012 census is that the inhabitants of this country found the most effective way to challenge the Government’s decision to exclude the mestizos. The most appropriate response found in the Census ballot was to say that more than…
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