By Ilya Fortún, Brujula Digital: It’s been a year now since we’ve been living in a different country than we were accustomed to for almost three decades, yet the social situation doesn’t reflect the new conditions. Gone is the illusion of an economy shielded with sustained growth, based on emerging middle classes enjoying the fruits…
Tag: democracy in peril
United for the Future | Unidos por el Futuro
By Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Brujula Digital: A candidacy to defeat MAS in 2025 The obvious goal of an opposition candidacy in Bolivia is to defeat the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in the general election of 2025. I believe that this can be possible if several basic conditions are met, or at least a majority of them….
Erosion of Truth | Erosión de la Verdad
By Renzo Abruzzese, El Deber: Media violence and state ideology A couple of decades ago, sitting down to watch the news was truly an intellectual act; social, cultural, political, and societal realities appeared on television screens, in oral and written press, in an organized, comprehensive, and mostly objective manner, with ethical standards that rarely hurt…
Opposition: Unite or Perish! | Oposición: ¡Unirse o Perecer!
A necessary warning to the opposition By Gisela Derpic, Brujula Digital: In the 1990s, a profound political crisis incubated in Bolivia. Its signs were the coca growers’ mobilizations, the so-called “water war” in Cochabamba, and the blockades in the La Paz highlands between 2000 and 2001. Few noticed the depth of it. Most analysts and…
Bolivia’s Urgent Mission: Defeat the MAS | La Misión Urgente de Bolivia: Derrotar al MAS
Priority number one: Expelling the MAS By Jimmy Ortiz, El Deber: Indeed, that is the number one priority of the Bolivian people: to expel this nefarious regime, an appendage of the transnational Socialism of the 21st Century, heir to the failed communism that fell with the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union,…
El Alto versus Chapare
Rolando Telleria, Los Tiempos: The division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) also carries regional connotations. While during the almost 14 years of hegemony — to put it that way, borrowing from Gramsci — there was an interesting cohesion that allowed Evo Morales to serve three consecutive terms, today the MAS is also divided territorially….
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 