Bolivian government has the tendency to inflate its accomplishments, out of arrogance, desperation or who knows… in any case current news from El Diario is very illustrative, vis-a-vis our most visible and important industry: hydrocarbons! Yesterday presented the annual report of the State oil company to the press Analysts: YPFB achievements are due to efforts…
Tag: democracy in peril
Current Bolivia corruption MUST trigger a necessary ministerial/cabinet change
Aldo Luna’s analysis in El Diario, should trigger appropriate and speedy reaction of current Bolivia’s central government: Necessary ministerial change Citizenship is concerned by the recent discovery of acts of extortion and corruption organized in upper echelons of the Government, which put at risk the democratic process that much cost to the country. It is…
Bolivia MUST stop political persecution!!
Ivan Arias Duran for Pagina Siete: Amnesty now! The national Government has been magnanimous with smugglers and common criminals, because for the former, decreed amnesty for smuggled [chutos] cars (2011) and for the latter, the treatment of a law of pardon (2012). However, it insists on denying the existence of political prisoners while Bolivians know…
Politics 101: Can Bolivia afford and continue to EVOlve around this egocentric state??!!
This article exposes the type of governement we have been enduring over the last seven years and prior years filled with road blockades, coca expansion and blooming anarchy… Raquel Otalora writes for El Deber: Million dollars to cover the orders of President Evo Morales Expensive tastes, which the President has. From an exclusive aircraft equipped…
Bolivian developmental gaps, can they be avoided??!!
Alberto Bonadona in Pagina Siete: The gaps toward development In Bolivia there is still the real awareness of the gaps that separate the Bolivian society and its development. The General formulas that international officials or local economists give continues. Abound the recommendations about the need for more education, more investment, etc. etc., but does not…
2011-2012: Bolivia and the obscene practice of the exercise of power
An exceptional end-of-the-year analysis by Susana Seleme Antelo, from http://www.hoybolivia.com: The obscene practice of the exercise of power “When lawyers tell me it is illegal, I just do it and I say just do it, then legalize it; for that they have studied”. Evo Morales Ayma. President of the former Republic of Bolivia, today Pluri-national State….
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