Editorial, El Diario: It is unfortunate that once again the population receives a daily dose of capricious assertions from the spokesmen of the party that was electorally imposed on the 18th. It is expressed even before the transmission of command. They begin by justifying themselves when they say that the MAS “ruled for everyone”, although…
Tag: Ochlocracy
El MAS es más sin Evo Morales – MAS is more without Evo Morales
Editorial, Página Siete: It turns out that there is life for the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) apart from Evo Morales. Long life. This is not good news for the former president asylee in Argentina who, contrary to what the figures say, interprets that the vote received by Luis Arce is a message asking for his…
¿Qué pasó? – What happened?
Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete: Reasons for the victory of MAS One of the reasons for the high MAS vote in last Sunday’s elections is that, in addition to support for candidate Luis Arce, there was a “punishment vote” against the transitional government. Hundreds of thousands of people who had supported Evo Morales’s party in the…
MÁS de lo mismo – MAS of the same
Bolivia lost‼️ The masismo faces a government without “easy money” … our future looks more like Venezuela…. Bolivia perdió‼️ El masismo enfrenta un gobierno sin “dinero fácil” … nuestro futuro se parece más a Venezuela …
Bolivia’s election is a test for Latin American socialism — and democracy
Monica Machicao and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Half a century after the execution of leftist firebrand Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the Bolivian jungle, the forces of the political right and left are once again waging ideological war in this impoverished Andean nation. Bolivia is heading toward a bitterly disputed presidential…
Demagogia cínica – Cynical demagogy
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Oil collectors It will be difficult to forget that, in this electoral campaign, candidate Luis Arce Catacora announced that, from the government, he would collect the used edible oil from the families to recycle it and thus, in five years, prevent Bolivia from importing diesel. Some state-owned company of instantaneous creation…
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