This cartoon is from Los Tiempos, October 10, 2013: Avernoy: “before being a masista I have met you as ecologist and as a left wing militant. What do you think now that evo accuses you of being part of the internal opposition, enemy of the change? Any opinion regarding that, dude?” person: “I’d be very…
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Under current ochlocracy, Bolivia lost the state-of-law!!
Carlos Toranzo writes for Pagina Siete: Non-existence of the State of law Who, who accepts the rule and follows it? In our country, who accept the laws and respect them? It seems that no one or very few. On the contrary, we have entered to the whirlpool that all counts, the total disregard and violation…
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,…
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