The legacy of Evo Morales

By Judah Waxelbaum, The Jerusalem Post: Next month, Bolivians will head to the polls to elect a new government. These elections, postponed twice out of fear for voters’ well-being during a global pandemic, carry historical weight for Bolivia’s future. Bolivia ousted its longest-serving president, Evo Morales, in November 2019. Morales’s career is one of socialist authoritarianism, or a champion…

evo/MAS – RIP

Fátima López, Página Siete: Epitaphs and premonitions Essays of epitaphs and apocalyptic announcements were the keynote of the messages of unity and disarmament that the MAS proposed to Bolivians, it did so head-on, as if it were about planting daisies on the road. Clad in a blue guayabera, under the blazing Pando sun, JRQ seemed…

Obituario del cínico – Obituary of the cynic

Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: Memories of the present The collapse of the MAS and its leader must be calmly analyzed. Very few times in the history of the country has there been such an accelerated collapse that it threatens to create a very large void. Two Masista parliamentarians pronounced very clear sentences in recent days:…

¿Desidia legislativa o corrupción? – Legislative neglect or corruption?

Editorial, El Diario: Foreign loans without legislative approval A lot of time goes by in which the Legislature stops foreign credits only due to the decision of a parliamentary majority composed of masista members willing to boycott all government action with a view to the purchase of equipment, implements, supplies and medicines to combat the…

Reconstruir – Rebuild

Luis Antezana, El Diario: Evo fell, but evism remained In November 2019, the MAS, headed by Evo Morales, when it had already ruled the country for fourteen years, was not only characterized by having arranged and administered more money than all the governments in the history of Bolivia, but also by other aspects that were…