Humberto Vacaflor´s analysis in El Deber: Chavez’s legacy Don’t need to wait long to know what Hugo Chávez will leave to his country when he has passed into history. A few minutes before the announcement of the deterioration of the health of the President, Caracas suffered a three-hour blackout. Government officials admitted that the electric…
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Bolivian politics: Smear Campaign
Carlos Cordero´s analysis of Bolivian politics, from El Deber: Smear campaign The Government campaign to try to retain power after the elections of 2014 has intensified, but it is also stumbling with new and old problems. The President of the State has ratified that it is in campaign for the second re-election for a third…
Bolivian governmental corruption: when the s#it hits the fan… and/or audios become available…
Bolivia and the world watches the corruption spectacle that current government is immersed in… Pagina Siete reports the latest in the zaga of those who relentlessly want to run for re-re-election… The recording will be delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Vice President Alleged “Prosecutor Soza” audio links authorities network The representative of the…
A good or bad public policy for the Bolivian environment?
Pagina Siete reports on the new change in the environmental license requisite. Chances are that in order to “expedite” the willingness of current Bolivian government to offer more projects, the damage could be greater onto Bolivian indigenous communities and our National Park System, if current provision, later on, gets expanded. TIPNIS is not a small…
Bolivia Basics: The emerging middle classes
Horst Grebe Lopez writes for La Razon: The emerging middle classes Policies should incorporate new dimensions to meet changes in stratification In the 11 years that passed between the last two population censuses, Bolivian society has registered profound transformations in their geographical location, their social stratification and their income levels. It is true that some…
Bolivia: The “Rozsa case”
Susana Seleme Antelo writes for El Deber: The “Rozsa case” Is the terrorist-separatist plot thought by the [Central] Government to eliminate the Santa Cruz political-civic autonomy leadership, obstacle to the centralist project, authoritarian, re-re – election of the autocrat President Evo Morales. It takes the name of the infiltrate in the Santa Cruz’ leadership, Eduardo…
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