Is democracy lost in current Bolivia?

El Dia’s Editorial: Who will save democracy? President Morales has returned to affirm that his political project or maybe he, coming to be the same, have become to stay indefinitely at the Quemado Palace. He says, after at least six political groupings have practically confirmed to participate in the general elections of 2014. The presidential…

Five years from ignoring who caused death in Porvenir, Pando

Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: The process remains stalled Porvenir, five years without knowing the truth Pando. The opposition says that the Government has the former Prefect Leopoldo Fernández as a trophy. Today [9/11/13] marks five years of the Porvenir massacre, unless you know for sure who were the instigators of the confrontation between…

Bolivian ochlocracy and rampant corruption

Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Institutionality and purging Vice President García Linera said that “there was no sufficient effort in the Bolivian police institutionally to purge their troops”; statement that it’s very interesting coming from him, an important man of a Government that got hold of a ‘pseudo-militants’ inside the military and police for…

Authoritarian leaders breed corruption and Bolivia is no longer a surprise

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,…

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…