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…
Tag: Ochlocracy
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 central government’s “pride”, lasted very little…
Humberto Vacaflor writes in HoyBolivia.com: Their pride lasted very little Cuba has decided to install a gigantic dock for containers, given that the ones the United States has in its territory do not cover its foreign trade traffic and need to rent them from the neighbors. These same days, the Bolivian Government has decided to…
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,…
Bolivia ruling ochlocracy, now a senior policeman caught in political extortion!
Jay Weaver describes Bolivian ordeal under the ruling ochlocracy, from the Miami Herald: FEDERAL COURTS Bolivia’s anti-corruption chief charged with extorting airline executive in Miami BY JAY WEAVER JWEAVER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Only in Miami: The Bolivian government’s top anti-corruption cop is locked up in a downtown jail cell, accused of shaking down a foreign businessman here for…
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…
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