Andres Oppenheimer writes for The Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, click here: President Evo Morales has twisted Bolivia’s constitution to allow him to run for a fourth term, despite term limits. AIZAR RALDES GETTY IMAGES Much of Latin America’s attention is focused on the Oct. 27 elections in Argentina and Uruguay. But there’s a scandalous election…
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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…
How evo is now perceived by the world’s socialist community …
Bolivian Thoughts Opinion: They usually tend to amaze me, I’m talking about the self-labelled socialists that pullulate our world … during the 90’s they were mostly known as the watermelons … red inside and green on the outside, as they intended to reinvent themselves as their “logic and theory” became impractical, while environmental issues were…
evo promotes bullying instead of debate of ideas, what a lousy jerk!
El Diario reports: In Potosí Mesa denounces “bullying” of the MAS CARLOS MESA, CITIZEN COMMUNITY CANDIDATE WAS THE LAST DAYS IN POTOSÍ. Carlos Mesa denounced yesterday that a group of clash of militants of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) committed provocations, in the style of bullying, against followers of the Citizen Community (CC) in the…
Given evo’s disastrous harm to Bolivian Democracy: Manual for candidates
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Memories of the present Manual for candidates In view of the fact that the legitimate candidates, not vetoed by any referendum, are very quiet, surely elaborating their proposals, here are some ideas, which could serve, modestly. • That the country will never again be governed by the representative of…
21F: former president Pastrana accepts being “ambassador” [evo … your days are numbered!]
ANF thru Pagina Siete: The Pro Santa Cruz Committee asked former President of Colombia Andres Pastrana to be ambassador of 21F. He accepted and promised to ask the president of his country, Ivan Duque, to submit a request to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the application of Article 23 of the American Convention…
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