Jimena Costa, Pagina Siete: Internal petty war Many times, before the 2019 campaign, and certainly long before the pandemic, I heard people say that the worst thing that could happen to the opposition was to be a government. Economic crisis, fiscal deficit, tremendous external debt, accelerated decline in International Reserves, state-owned and rentier society, minimal…
Tag: democracy in peril
Antidemocrático – Antidemocratic
Andres Gomez, Pagina Siete: Canceling the 2/3 is to segregate 45% of the country If the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) wants to leave its undemocratic past (2009-2019) and return to being a democratic party and of concertation (2020), why did it annul two thirds of the regulations of Deputies and Senators? You are likely to…
Accused of Terrorism and Pedophilia, Socialist Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia
Frances Martel, Breitbart: Socialist ex-President of Bolivia Evo Morales, who resigned last year after the Organization of American States (OAS) found evidence that his Movement Towards Socialist (MAS) party committed fraud in that year’s election, returned to the country on Monday following a year in exile. Following the OAS findings in early November 2019 —…
Protestas durante posesión – Protests during inauguration
El Diario: Two-thirds defense Opposition justifies protests during presidential tenure These protests were applied against the devious measure of the former parliamentarians and not against the assumption of national command by President Arce, for which they ask to take into account the reversal of the aforementioned modifications. Defensa de dos tercios Oposición justifica protestas durante…
Deslucida posesión – Lackluster inauguration
El Diario: Mesa and his parliamentary caucus protested the 2/3 When Luis Arce issued his presidential message, the assembly members of the Citizen Community (CC) withdrew from the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly The former president and leader of the Citizen Community (CC), Carlos Mesa, and 50 members of his caucus protested yesterday during the…
Democracia amarga – Bitter democracy
Agustín Echalar, Página Siete: From the moment that Mrs. Añez assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia, I thought that all the disorder resulting from the abuse of power by Evo Morales would have an end on the day that, after new elections, a legitimately elected president assumed power, in a fair managed by an honorable…
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