Andres Oppenheimer writes in The Miami Herald: Authoritarian leaders breed corruption BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM What’s most amazing about the arrest in Miami of Bolivia’s top anti-corruption police official, caught on tape extorting a bribe from a well-known businessman, was that hardly anybody was surprised by the news. Corruption by top officials of Bolivia, Ecuador,…
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Do Bolivians live under a disguised dictatorship? YES, beyond ANY doubt!!!
EFE reports in El Deber: BRAZILIAN SENATOR THAT HELPED PINTO Ferraco says that Bolivia lives a ”disguised dictatorship” The President of the Commission of Foreign Affairs of the Brazilian Senate, Ricardo Ferraço, who collaborated on the exit of the Bolivian opposition legislator Roger Pinto to Brazil, said today that Bolivia lives a ”disguised dictatorship”. Ferraco…
Bolivian political reality forces us to howl!!
Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber, a vivid description of how bad Bolivian citizens are enduring current central government, and they seek an illegitimate re-re-election… It is time to howl… I still do not absorb the horror of the bomb that exploded at the Palmasola prison. It still overwhelms me the resignation of Raúl Peñaranda…
Banking Law: every man to his own trade
Current Bolivia government knows about this century’s economics as I can write and speak fluently in all the more than thirty indigenous languages of their pluri-multi-nation… Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber: Economists and banking see more risks in law The ‘ceiling and floor’ rates scare industry. The ASFI does not see problems The sole…
Meet the real “self-proclaimed defender of mother nature”
A living oxymoron? a plain demagogue? or someone who just wants to take advantage of power, regardless…? It is not hearsay, it is the same person who uses “concepts” without the slight analysis, distorting everything and sending the worst possible messages… and all of that just because he got the majority of the votes… no…
Bolivia is in fact a mestizo country! regardless of current gov’s delusions
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: The State and the new middle class If we assume the Census evidence, there is no doubt that the Métis presence is majority in the Bolivian social structure. The strength of this fact precipitated the reaction of the Vice President, who came to pass immediately and openly denied the…
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