Letter from Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Former President of Bolivia, 1993-97 and 2002-03, to the Financial Times, graph at the bottom from El Dia: My policies helped pave the way for Bolivia’s boom I have always trusted the Financial Times but your Big Read on Bolivia, “The limits of Evonomics” (October 9), has shaken my…
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Bolivia’s election could lead to a ruthless ‘elected dictatorship.’ But no one’s paying attention
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…
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…
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