Editorial, El Deber: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a report on the economic situation in Bolivia with interesting conclusions that should draw the attention of the Government and the country’s economic actors. The most relevant data is that the international organization projects a growth of 5 percent in the Bolivian economy, and…
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The missed opportunities – Las oportunidades perdidas
Juan Antonio Morales, Pagina Siete: Our history is marked by a rosary of missed opportunities. In hindsight, it is quite clear and documented that we missed the export boom of 2004-2014. In some years, such as 2012 and 2013, the extra income we received was higher than 8% of GDP. Historians of our economy will…
Mesa calls the Government inefficient in managing the pandemic and accuses it of violating the Constitution – Mesa llama ineficiente al Gobierno en la gestión de la pandemia y lo acusa de violar la CPE
ANF, El Dia: He presented a popular action to free the importation of vaccines The leader of the opposition Citizen Community (CC), Carlos Mesa, affirmed that the government of Luis Arce is “irresponsible and inefficient” in managing the pandemic against the coronavirus (Covid-19), because it also violates the Political Constitution of the State and international…
Discredit of justice – Desprestigio de la justicia
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Council of the Magistracy and discredit of justice The discredit and loss of prestige that affect the Bolivian administration of justice is not a matter of concern for the Council of the Magistracy, the instance of the Judicial Organ responsible, according to the Constitution, “for the disciplinary regime of the ordinary, agro-environmental…
Involution, hand in hand with the masismo – Involución, de la mano del masismo
Editorial, El Diario: Community Justice and Dreadful Acts In the past week, the Bolivian population suffered a painful spiritual shock to learn that in an indigenous community a man was arrested, stripped, tortured and finally killed in a way that is nothing short of horrifying, since, previously, he was burned alive and executed by a…
Indigenous corruption? – ¿Corrupción indígena?
Pedro Portugal, Pagina Siete: The «indigenous» corruption in the MAS It is strange that during the administration that should have done the most to vindicate the figure of the Indian, it was mostly stigmatized as corrupt, indecent and unreliable. The MAS came to the government on the crest of the culturalist wave that falsified the…
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