Rosa Muñoz, Deutsche Welle: The political dispute between the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and former president Evo Morales reveals more and more public complaints about drug trafficking networks and corruption. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” The fight between former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) and his former heir apparent and current president of Bolivia, Luis…
Tag: democracy in peril
Dangerous temptations of the Judiciary | Tentaciones peligrosas del Poder Judicial
Editorial, El Deber: When it was believed that the country’s deinstitutionalization had hit rock bottom, new elements emerge that show that democracy can be even more tainted and that laws are used at will to generate scenarios of abuse of power. This is the case of the Judiciary that does not mind failing to comply…
Santa Cruz and the masismo | Santa Cruz y el masismo
Agustin Echalar, Los Tiempos: Today is the big day of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the most thriving city in Bolivia, the city that is home to the most Bolivians who in recent decades have decided to settle there, it is a city that attracts Moors and Christians, the rich and the poor, to young…
With Evo and with Arce… | Con Evo y con Arce…
Editorial, El Dia: The country remains divided between those who consider that the MAS fight is a farce and those who think that there will be no way for reconciliation. Although well-known analysts and political scientists assure that the dispute is real and that it is “to the death”, politics is not an exact science…
Añez rejects Arce’s criteria regarding respect for democracy in the country | Añez rechaza criterios de Arce sobre el respeto a la democracia en el país
El Diario: They see cynicism in statements Questioning the words of the President of the State, Luis Arce Catacora, who from Chile stated that his government deplores any attitude against democracy, former President Jeanine Añez, reproached the “cynicism” of the authority, recalling that the Movement towards Socialism (MAS ) carried out electoral fraud in 2019,…
What Arce promises is much more serious | Lo que Arce promete es mucho más serio
Ernesto Bascope, Los Tiempos: Masismo 2.0, an efficient despotism Like many, I made the mistake of believing that Luis Arce would be a decorative president, just a pawn of Morales willing to blindly obey his former master. With the departure of the incompetent Mr. Chávez from the Attorney General’s Office, the former bureaucrat seeks more…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 