Editorial, El Deber: With a pandemic that takes lives, an economic crisis for which there are still no answers, and a general panorama of uncertainty in the country, the Government of Luis Arce buys a controversy with the replacement of the National coat-of-arms by the Andean cross. Either it is a matter of accessory use,…
Tag: democracy in peril
Traición a la Patria – Treason to the Fatherland
Editorial, El Diario: Foreign intervention requested Evo Morales in Cuba In an unusual way, former President Evo Morales confessed, without the slightest embarrassment, in a press interview that, while he was a refugee in Argentina, he traveled to Cuba to have a meeting with the ruler of that country and with that of Venezuela, with…
Víctimas rechazan amnistía y creen que genera impunidad – Victims reject amnesty and believe it generates impunity
Pagina Siete: Those affected by the violence prior to November 12, 2019 see little progress in the investigations and point out that the norm favors the accused. The victims of the acts of violence, prior to November 12, 2019, rejected the presidential decree of amnesty and pardon for political persecution and humanitarian reasons. They expressed…
Criminales sueltos – Criminals on the loose
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Unacceptable amnesty in favor of MAS More than 1,000 people related to the MAS and who participated in violent acts and vandalism will benefit from the supreme decree of Amnesty and Humanitarian Pardon, approved by the Executive and which the Legislative is preparing to endorse. “Those colleagues who are harmed for no…
Coacción – Coercion
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Arce’s coercion of voters President Luis Arce travels the country coercing voters to vote for MAS candidates on the grounds that this will allow him to better coordinate the works and even the distribution of vaccines. Former President Evo Morales had us used to electoral speeches of this type, but Arce was…
Perniciosa demagogia – Pernicious demagogy
Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: Democracy in decline I imagine the discomfort – even outrage – that a title like this can cause among true Democrats. Worse if it comes from a subject like me who cannot display such ostentatious democratic credentials as those of those who have taken over the term. But it does not…
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