Roberto Laserna, El Dia: Polarization and political conflict After having lived two very intense years in the country, with two national elections, violent conflicts, two changes of government and a transition heavily hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, we arrived at the end of 2020 with a collective sense of concern and fear. The country has…
Tag: democracy in peril
Elogio – Praise
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: A praise from The Economist It must be the first time that The Economist magazine has put Bolivia on a very short list of countries it wants to praise, among the best of 2020. In its year-end edition, it first mentions New Zealand, for its exemplary handling of the pandemic: only…
Goni? evo?
Juan Jose Toro, Pagina Siete: It was a coup If a coup d’état is the takeover of the government of a country with the aid of violence, was that the resignation of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada? No. Nobody put a gun to Goni’s head to make him resign or was he pushed out of the…
Chau liderazgo – evo – Bye leadership
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Symbolic blue chair Symbolic is the color, blue, of the chair that the head of the Movement for Socialism received yesterday on his head, during an extended session of that party, in the Chapare, where its national and departmental leaders tried to define the candidacies for the governors of the nine departments…
Evo Morales silletazo provokes criticism and memes in Bolivia
By Desk, Inspired Traveler [I included pics, and inserted them along this article as they appeared in social media]: La Paz, 15 Dec (EFE) .- The controversy was served in Bolivia following the silletazo against former President Evo Morales at a meeting of his party, with reactions ranging from criticism, concern and threats of expulsion…
Engañosos – masistas – Misleading
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Don’t be silly It turns out, from everything we hear and read, that Bolivians do not now know what a coup is. Experts in the field until recently, we tried to confuse young people of what it is like to overthrow a president through a coup. It happens that the masistas…
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