Vesna Marinkovic writes in El Dia: Are we a pathetic country? I am beginning to fear that we are a pathetic country. In 195 years of history we have not been able to build an institutional framework that makes us a solid and reliable country; we almost survived by magic. Planning is outside our borders….
Tag: presidential elections
Finally: suing the fraudulent! – Finalmente: enjuiciando a los fraudulentos!
El Diario reports: Attorney General Six Electoral Courts sued for electoral fraud In the shortest possible time, the judges are expected to issue convictions against the culprits in this case. The General Secretariat of the OAS Organization confirmed that a fraud was committed in the Bolivian elections last October, which led to the leftist Evo…
Constituent and federalism – Constituyente y federalismo
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Constituent and federalism The October-November revolution has not been understood by politicians. What the country wants is a real change, for example, a constituent that is a clean slate and a new account, starting with adopting federalism. This could have been achieved by announcing, on November 10, that open…
Elections yes, but not like this – Elecciones sí, pero no así
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Elections yes, but not like this When a country goes to an election conditioned by two events like the ones I will detail below, it puts its democracy at risk. Let’s see: COVID: The severity of the Pandemic may not go away or continue at this same level (or…
Four Urgent Questions on Bolivia’s Election
Brendan O’Boyle reports for Americas Quarterly: Uncertainty reigns as the pandemic shakes Bolivian politics. Bolivia has been trying to elect a new president since last October, when the voting ended in protests, violence, President Evo Morales’ resignation and the ascent of an interim government nobody had voted for. Since then, the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has…
A naked nation – Una nación desnuda
Renzo Abruzzese writes in Pagina Siete: A naked nation Bolivians have known for a long time that we inhabited a poor country, but suddenly, in the face of the common pots that flooded the belts of poverty in large cities, the country felt that being a poor country was not a mere expression; it had…
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