By Diego Ayo, Brujula Digital: Why Do the COB and Other Actors Keep Blockading? The media speaks of social actors on the move—miners, peasants, teachers, COB leaders—with the same revolutionary tone heard at the beginning of the millennium. It would seem we are talking about the same actors. They are not. Those earlier marchers moved with an…
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Saving Bolivia Before Collapse | Salvar a Bolivia Antes del Colapso
Editorial, El Dia: There Is a Need to Save the Country Bolivia is on the brink, and the worst part is that it continues moving toward the abyss. This is neither rhetoric nor catastrophism: it is a diagnosis confirmed by the numbers, the conflicts, and recent history. The current government inherited a country in ruins—hollowed…
Unrest Tests Paz’s Fragile Start | La conflictividad pone a prueba el frágil inicio de Paz
By Germaine Barriga, Vision 360: Laserna: Social unrest may be due to expectations surrounding Paz’s arrival in government, the heavy burden inherited, and the economic crisis However, he does not rule out that behind the conflicts taking place in the country there may be actors interested in weakening him and, in that way, aspiring to…
Anti-Blockade Law, a Must | Ley antibloqueos, una necesidad
By Unitel: The Eastern Transport Chamber asks the Government for an anti-blockade law The Eastern Transport Chamber is asking the central government for an anti-blockade law in light of the multimillion-dollar losses generated by this form of pressure [Reference image] / Road blockade on the Santa Cruz–Trinidad highway The president of the Eastern Transport Chamber,…
Rodrigo Paz’s government is going against the tide, and there’s no time to lose or patience | Gobierno de Rodrigo Paz va contra la corriente y NO hay tiempo que perder ni paciencia
By El Diario: They Will Apply Measures Gradually and Rule Out Going to the International Monetary Fund The Government will apply measures to reactivate the economy and change the model gradually, ruling out shock adjustments and also ruling out turning to the International Monetary Fund, because what is needed is not recipes but economic policies, according…
Losing Patience | Perdiendo la paciencia
By Antonio Saravia, Vision 360: That cushion would allow them to shore up international reserves and return the dollars owed to the financial system. This would make deep reforms both possible and bearable. There is no other path. Will they do it? Enough already. The benefit of the doubt ends here. Patience has run out…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 