Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: “Justice is rotten” Said by the vice president and I support him fully for the first time: “Justice is rotten”. What has not said by the ‘vice’ is that justice is rotten from the moment that the MAS (who would have that idea?) came up with those judicial elections….
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The debate on the second Christmas bonus
This week, newspaper El Mundo reported that seven people out of every ten in Bolivia work in the informal sector… thus, the demagogue ruling ochlocracy has forced the legal sector to pay a second Christmas bonus… in the last nine years, the size of the public service has increased exponentially, including a large portion of…
Bolivia on the Road to Serfdom
Roberto Ortiz writes in the blog of the Panam Post: Bolivia on the Road to Serfdom Morales Embodies Tyranny of the Majority, Hijacking of Democracy In a speech before the House of Commons in 1947, Winston Churchill said, “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.” He…
Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open
Roberto Ortiz writes in the blog of the Panam Post: Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open International Warnings Do Little to Temper Drug-Trafficking Haven Roberto Ortiz October 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm One year ago, in October 2013, I wrote “Bolivia, the Narco-Trafficker’s Paradise,” published in El Deber and El Dia. My article…
About the alleged Santa Cruz separatism…
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: About Santa Cruz separatism The escape of former prosecutor Marcelo Soza to Brazil may be the end of a curse that fell on the Bolivian people, but particularly for Santa Cruz. A whole rigging mounted with unusual cynicism has kept on suspense hundreds of families who suffered for their…
Bolivian politics 101: 10 keys to recognize totalitarianism
Andres Gomez writes in Pagina Siete: 10 keys to recognize totalitarianism Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism developed as a strategy for the social idiocy to stay in power. Is there a risk that these totalitarian currents are occurring in the present age? Anything can happen, better to prevent. Recognize them how to care for democracy? I have…
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