Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: It is clear to all citizens that these elections are crucial for two reasons: if the MAS wins, we will have an authoritarian government for many years, and if the MAS wins, the first thing it will do is to radicalize its dictatorial nature and wipe out every vestige of opposition….
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Primero – Bolivia – First
Editorial, El Diario: The country is before political interests and conveniences We are a few days away from the electoral process on October 18; the people, as always, hope that partisan politics, and especially the candidates, will show that they can be aware of the country and that their responsibility forces them to maintain serenity…
Falta de propuestas – Lack of proposals
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: The announced presidential debate will certainly show that the candidates do not have proposals capable of showing that they are aware of the size of the crisis. The country needs to be reinvented, as if the accident and implausible discovery made by Diego Huallpa in 1545 or the discovery of oil…
Caradura – MAS – Rotter
Demetrio Reynolds, El Día: The useful vote versus the hard vote In this stubborn exercise at the polls, there is no great news. It seems that someone has taken us for the horses of the Ferris wheel, so we go round and round without advancing anywhere. Last year at this time we saw the same…
Nuestro turno – Our turn
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: The word is owned by citizens In fourteen years of government, the escaped president had in his favor two fundamental capitals that facilitated the administration of the State and of politics. The first, the extraordinary boom in the prices of raw materials; If the “neoliberals” ruled with the price of a…
Bolivia Has Changed Since 2003. Has Carlos Mesa?
Brendan O’Boyle, Americas Quarterly: Seventeen years after becoming president during a severe political crisis, Mesa may now return to the job. In 2003, Bolivia was in crisis. A bloody crackdown on weeks of protests had forced President Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada to flee the country. In his place stepped Vice President Carlos Mesa Gisbert,…
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