El Dia: The Diagnosis company has just conducted a national survey and asked people if they prefer the Santa Cruz model of development or lean in favor of the government proposal consisting of distributing money liberally to those loyal to the regime at the expense of fleecing those who work and pay their taxes. That…
Tag: liberalism
Those “radicals” … | Esos “radicales” …
Editorial, El Dia: Why is socialism so popular, despite the fact that it necessarily has to resort to force to impose its precepts, to carry out its great ideals of prosperity, equality, well-being, social justice, the common good and blah, blah. Why are liberalism and capitalism so hated, why is nobody defending them and why…
A Bolivia of owners, not proletarians | Una Bolivia de propietarios, no proletarios
Jaime Dunn, El Deber: Popular Capitalism: A call for a Bolivia of owners, not proletarians There is a powerful bond that unites us as Bolivians, a common interest that arises spontaneously, without coordination or obligation. It is as if an invisible force organized us and prompted us to act individually and collectively. This common interest…
¿Y ahora qué? – And now what?
Teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias únicas de Bolivia, producto del fraude del caudillo cocalero en 2019, los desafíos que enfrentamos después del Covid 19 con la caída de los precios internacionales de todas nuestras exportaciones, y la polaridad existente entre la demagogia populista y nuestro contexto cultural, aquí hay algunas recomendaciones que se alinean con…
El Alto shares Evo Morales’s indigenous identity, not his socialism
The Economist reports: High and mighty The surprising liberalism of Bolivia’s “Aymara capital” El alto hovers over La Paz, Bolivia’s administrative capital, like the blade of a guillotine. In 1781 Tupac Katari, an indigenous leader, laid siege to Spanish La Paz 500 metres (1,600 feet) below. In the early 2000s protests by alteños forced out of office two…
Bolivian Politics 101: The anti-liberal liberalism in current Bolivia
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The anti-liberal liberalism in current Bolivia If you start from the objective definition of liberalism that defines that “liberalism is the political expression of capitalism” – in Bolivia never that system and all governments were determined to nominate themselves as liberals since it was applied in 1900, all they…
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