Fundacion Milenio again produces a very relevant report, translation in its entirety follows: Adopted laws and their contents between 2006 and September 2012 From the new political Constitution of the State (CPE) that governs from the 2009, the legislature is called Pluri-national Legislative Assembly (ALP), and its essential faculty is: “[…] approve and sanction laws…
Tag: law compliance
Current Bolivian gov bullies and the last elected Governor from the opposition that holds office
News like these continue to undermine our democracy and is a clear sign of the style and drive that rules the political party in power, lead by a majority of illegal coca growers. Los Tiempos and El Diario report: Los Tiempos: They ratify that Costas will not be suspended The new President of the Constitution…
Current Bolivian Government management style
This cartoon is from El Diario, January 8, 2012. It portrays both current president and vice-president. The latter is placing a big eraser in the elbow of the former. The vice says: “with this heavy-duty eraser you will be able to erase [with the elbow] all the short laws you will sanction..” [with the hand]…
Why don’t we comply with existing laws?
It is really confusing, how this government sets up the rules, laws and then decides to bypass them, instead of amending, updating or clarifying better. This can only be a proof of how current people really are. They want to do as they please, and feel not obliged to comply with the rules, unless it…
TIPNIS latest as of December 4, 2011 – 20:32 PM
El Deber website reported the latest agreement between TIPNIS leaders and the government regarding the regulations for the “short law” and the ‘intangible’ concept: The document was signed approximately at 10:30 AM this Sunday, informed the President of the sub-central Sécure, Fernando Vargas, now the regulation must be endorsed by presidential decree. The Act establishes that…
Transparency International ranks Bolivia’s corruption
I made this collage from Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2011. On the left, there is the scale by color and numbers from the very clean to the highly corrupt perception for 2011. Below the title in black, Bolivia’s map with its “corruption’s color and those of our neighbors. To the right, the list of…
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