failed State – Page 25 – Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe)

An Incurable Crisis? | ¿Una Crisis Incurable?

Editorial, El Dia: Incurable? Businesspeople can complain all they want, but the Bolivian economic crisis seems incurable. Luis Arce resists applying the recipes or suggestions offered to him and, even more so, refuses to resort to the necessary adjustments to avoid disaster. In 1985, with an annual inflation rate of 20,000%, the situation was radically…

Economic slowdown demands concerted adjustment measures | Desaceleración económica exige medidas de ajuste concertadas

By Antonio Rocha, El Deber: Given the situation in the current year’s first quarter, with higher year-on-year inflation accumulated by March, the persistent decline in national exports, reduced imports due to the absence of competitive currency and payment methods, coupled with shortages of fuel and inputs for industry and agriculture, I believe we must fasten…

Living in a failed state | Vivir en un Estado fallido

Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: The road to turn Bolivia into a failed state is well advanced and perhaps it would not have been necessary to add a section of shame, with the military patrol that surrendered to some smugglers. That unfortunate spectacle was not necessary when clandestine drug trafficking rings are operating in Bajo Paraguá,…

Bolivia plurimulti: The masista collapse – El descalabro masista

Editorial, Los Tiempos: The decadent state of the MAS It was the American philosopher and academic John Rawls who formulated the concept of the rogue state, which is also known as the failed state. If the State is the politically and legally organized society and also the institution that exercises the legitimate monopoly of violence,…