Lupe Cajias, Pagina Siete: From Ametex to Aasana What unites Teresa Morales Olivera and Arminda Choque Paca? The two were appointed to occupy high responsibilities in the public administration without having sufficient professional preparation. The result is a catastrophe for hundreds of families: Teresa put hundreds of Ametex workers out of work and Arminda accelerated…
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Empresarios piden paz social para inversiones – Entrepreneurs ask for social peace for investments
El Diario: The presidents of the country’s private business federations issued a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the progress of the regions. They also maintain that the unity and coordinated work will multiply the results to reactivate the productive apparatus and services of the country. The representatives of the federations of private entrepreneurs in the…
UN Committee lashes out at Bolivia’s judiciary for lack of independence
Merco Press [Español: El Diario]: The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) Friday published a series of findings which hit authorities from the Plurinational State of Bolivia as well as from countries in other continents (including Sweden). The CAT’s report highlights positive aspects of each country’s implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,…
¿Existe institucionalidad y respeto de las instituciones? – Is there institutionality and respect for institutions?
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Democracy or authoritarianism Since 2016, when the Referendum was held, Bolivia has been facing this dilemma, democracy or authoritarianism, others prefer to say that it is about the opposition between democracy versus dictatorship, on the other hand, there are many who refer to the confrontation between democracy and autocracy. This last…
¿De qué amenaza? Y ¿qué democracia? – What threat? And what democracy?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Offenses to democracy “It is not revenge, it is justice”, repeat the followers of the MAS, along with the narrative that in Bolivia there was a coup in 2019. But the actions, hand in hand with the Police and the Public Ministry, as occurred during the government of Jeanine Áñez, they look…
Discriminador y racista – Luchin – Discriminator and racist
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Blatant discrimination On Sunday, in Santa Cruz, the President of the State accused “the right” of exercising discrimination and racism against the most humble, while in the same city, in another place, dozens of indigenous people from the lowlands have been waiting for 54 days the attention of the Government to raise…
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