Editorial, El Diario: The Plurinational State—which the MAS (Movement for Socialism) attempted to establish in 2009 with the first Constitution approved by referendum—led by the “country’s first indigenous president,” has completed its historical cycle by destroying the very creation it set out to build. Officially born on January 22, 2010, the Plurinational State will soon…
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Inflation, dollar shortages, and fuel scarcity: the new face of Bolivia | Inflación, escasez de dólares y falta de combustible, la nueva cara de Bolivia
By Opinion: 2024 marked the end of the economic boom of the early millennium. The Bolivian currency depreciated, and gasoline and diesel are in short supply. An alleged coup worsened the situation. In a report last year, the World Bank highlighted Bolivia as one of the three economies with the best economic growth projections in…
The merits of Evo and Arce | Los méritos de Evo y Arce
By Carlos Toranzo Roca, Brújula Digital: They rose to power together, with Evo only adopting indigenous and socialist ideas at the last minute. Early in his campaign, those were not his main themes, as he came from a unionist logic more closely tied to revolutionary nationalism, which is his true heritage, as is the Popular…
SOCIALISM THEN AND NOW, HERE AND THERE | EL SOCIALISMO ANTES Y AHORA, AQUÍ Y ALLÁ
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? A simplistic answer to the question is: No. The International Monetary Fund’s purpose is to preserve the international financial system and, for that, national economies’ finances must also remain in a certain balance. In that sense, any socialist should disapprove of the IMF. But…
¡La economía de Bolivia al borde del colapso! | Bolivia’s Economy on the Brink of Collapse!
Por News Today, DRM News: De la Prosperidad al Colapso Crisis Económica en Bolivia: Inflación, Líneas de Combustible y Agitación 16 de diciembre de 2024 #BoliviaCrisis#EconomicCollapse#InflationCrisis Bolivia enfrenta su peor crisis económica en décadas, con una inflación récord, exportaciones de gas en colapso y una grave escasez de dólares. El modelo económico socialista, antes celebrado,…
Chills in the MAS | Escalofríos en el MAS
Editorial, El Dia: More than one in the MAS regime must have felt chills after the separate statements made by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator and the Southern District of New York prosecutor, Damian Williams, who is leading the case against Bolivia’s former anti-narcotics chief, Maximiliano Dávila, recently extradited. Anne Milgram made it…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 