By Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Brujula Digital: A candidacy to defeat MAS in 2025 The obvious goal of an opposition candidacy in Bolivia is to defeat the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in the general election of 2025. I believe that this can be possible if several basic conditions are met, or at least a majority of them….
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Opposition: Unite or Perish! | Oposición: ¡Unirse o Perecer!
A necessary warning to the opposition By Gisela Derpic, Brujula Digital: In the 1990s, a profound political crisis incubated in Bolivia. Its signs were the coca growers’ mobilizations, the so-called “water war” in Cochabamba, and the blockades in the La Paz highlands between 2000 and 2001. Few noticed the depth of it. Most analysts and…
The imputation to a democracy hero | La imputación a un héroe de la democracia
Editorial, El Deber: Systems engineer Édgar Villegas has been charged with public instigation to commit crimes. Such a serious accusation comes from a deputy, Renán Cabezas, from the Evista bloc of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), who also demands that the professional be detained in the maximum-security prison of Chonchocoro. More than four years after…
The 21st of February changed Bolivia’s history | El 21-F cambió la historia de Bolivia
Editorial, El Deber: Eight years have passed, but the date is engraved in the imprint of Bolivians. That day marked a before and an after. That day, 2,682,517 people said No with their vote to Evo Morales’ reelection because they rejected the modification of the Political Constitution of the State that prohibits a third consecutive…
THE NAME OF THE GAME | EL NOMBRE DEL JUEGO
Oscar Antezana Malpartida, El Dia: Already, whoever becomes the next President of Bolivia will have a very tough time. The economy is in tatters, and the next government will have to rebuild it from its foundations. That’s where we are, perhaps like never before in Bolivia’s history. We lack everything essential for a thriving economy…
THE PRESIDENTIAL – EL PRESIDENCIABLE
Oscar Antezana Malpartida, El Dia: It is obvious, and all Bolivians comment, that an opposition leader is needed, even more so, that he becomes the only candidate to confront the MAS in the next elections. So far nothing new. It is also not new that there are already several candidates or they paint themselves as…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 