Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Brujula Digital: “…in the face of disaster, some ask: Why?…the free man asks: What do I do?” We look like a lost flock. Those of us who write about the political situation in Bolivia, both reading ourselves, sound like sheep bleating. At first it was like listening to the lost ram, as it…
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The road to ruin: How a political rift threatens Bolivia’s stability | El camino a la ruina: cómo una ruptura política amenaza la estabilidad de Bolivia
The Week This past week, Evo Morales’s supporters paralyzed the country By Milan Sime Martinic Bolivian President Luis Arce, center, and his Vice President David Choquehuanca, left, wave to supporters from a presidential palace balcony | AP High in the Andes mountains, the air is thin. Opportunities are scarce. Held together by strong regional societal…
The plurinational and the irrational | Lo plurinacional y lo irracional
Editorial, Correo del Sur: Division: that was the characteristic of the 15th celebration that former president Evo Morales took out of the blue in 2010 as one of the many changes that were introduced in the country in order to satisfy his insatiable egomania. In reality, January 22 is not the anniversary of the founding…
Exhaustion of a cycle – MAS – Agotamiento de un ciclo
Ilya Fortún, Brujula Digital: The MAS playing on another court The crisis of representation throughout the political spectrum (both in the ruling party and in the opposition), marks the exhaustion of a relatively long cycle that began after the collapse of the previous political system, around the year 2000. The Movement towards Socialism, which was…
Economic waste – MAS – Despilfarro económico
El Diario: Economic waste of the MAS forces the Government to instruct austerity measures After learning of a statement issued by the Ministry of Economy in which public sector entities are instructed to apply austerity measures to “precaute financial stability,” the senator for the Citizen Community (CC), Andrea Barrientos, pointed out that the waste of…
Lack of institutionality | Carencia de institucionalidad
Carlos Toranzo Roca, Brujula Digital: We lost the Pacific War because Bolivia had a weak State that did not have a presence in its entire territory, with ravenous institutions; on the other hand, Chile had developed a solid State with more efficient institutions than those that existed in Bolivia. Many scholars of the Bolivian reality…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 