Egocentrism versus Heroism, Oruro and Bolivia must decide

Current Bolivia central government president has demonstrated how egocentric and superficial he can be. Huge and expensive museum for his mementos in his home town, a presidential airport facility, a new presidential palace, post stamps with his image, and now his name in the Oruro airport… well, follows the story of a real hero whose…

Bolivia: The “Rozsa case”

Susana Seleme Antelo writes for El Deber: The “Rozsa case” Is the terrorist-separatist plot thought by the [Central] Government to eliminate the Santa Cruz political-civic autonomy leadership, obstacle to the centralist project, authoritarian, re-re – election of the autocrat President Evo Morales. It takes the name of the infiltrate in the Santa Cruz’ leadership, Eduardo…

Pathetic current Bolivian government through the humor lens of El Diario

This is from El Diario December 5, 2012: As current president approaches the publicity and propaganda “office”, while he is approached by Bolivian poverty. The amount this government spends on propaganda, marketing their government and promoting their leader’s image is OUTRAGEOUS!! This is from El Diario, February 7, 2013: As current president enjoys partying with…

Bolivian corruption and egocentrism through the international lens

Andres Oppenheimer wrote two interesting articles for The Miami Herald. Follows excerpts that pertain to Bolivia; and at the end of each, the link to get the full articles. THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s corruption starts at top  BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER A new study on corruption in Latin America contains some alarming figures…

Bolivian central government’s blatant errors on foreign policy

El Diario’s editorial reflects our disgrace of having a central government that has NO capacity at all… Blatant errors of foreign policy Wrong and successive steps of the Government in international politics and, in particular, with reference to relations with Chile, never cease to cause concern, but even amazement on diplomatic circles. That the case…