Editorial, Los Tiempos: Today is half a year [5/8/2021] since the Government of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), elected in October 2020, assumed the reins of the State, and as we verified three months ago in this same space, when They were fulfilling the first 100 days of the presidency of Luis Arce, their actions…
Tag: government failures
Galloping corruption! – ¡Corrupción galopante!
Editorial, El Diario: Official inefficiency accelerates corruption As unemployment has “face for everything,” it is said that having well-paid jobs in the informal economy is the easiest. Every position has “officials ready for anything” (and they queue at the doors of the boss). This has always been a prevailing reality at all times because, from…
Who rules, evo or Lucho? – ¿Quién manda, evo o Lucho?
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The power before the throne Former President Evo Morales is not the power behind the throne, he is the power in front of the throne because he exercises it in the sight and patience of President Luis Arce and of all those who voted for the current president. For example, he met…
Indigenous corruption? – ¿Corrupción indígena?
Pedro Portugal, Pagina Siete: The «indigenous» corruption in the MAS It is strange that during the administration that should have done the most to vindicate the figure of the Indian, it was mostly stigmatized as corrupt, indecent and unreliable. The MAS came to the government on the crest of the culturalist wave that falsified the…
Many loose ends – Muchos cabos sueltos
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Difficult moment for Bolivians. At times it seems that they have two governments and then they have the feeling that they do not even have one. The coca grower Morales dispatches from the Chapare. There he receives foreign chancellor ministers and the creme de la creme of the Santa Cruz business…
Unemployment – Desempleo
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The worrying unemployment figures Bolivian workers have arrived on May 1 in the middle of the worst economic crisis caused by the pandemic and with the highest unemployment rate in recent years, which as of February reaches 8.93%, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). According to the Millennium…
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