Los Tiempos: Downgrading of Bolivia’s outlook makes access to foreign credit difficult The international rating agency Moody’s Investors Service changed the outlook on the Bolivian government’s ratings from stable to negative, a situation that reflects a risk outlook of a weakening of the country’s sovereign credit profile. Moodys’s observed that Bolivia has a significant fiscal…
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El paquetazo legislativo del Gobierno – The legislative package of the Government
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The government of President Luis Arce promotes a package of laws that aims to centralize power (even more) in the Executive Branch, which includes the control of much of the personal information of Bolivian citizens. The objective could not be more alarming and sinister. Among all of them, the most controversial is…
Respeto a CPE, DDHH y democracia – Respect for the Constitution, human rights and democracy
Angelica Siles, El Diario: Platforms are organized to demand respect for the CPE, human rights and democracy The Political Constitution of the State establishes in Article 1 that “Bolivia is constituted in a Social Unitary State of Plurinational Community Law, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural, decentralized and with autonomies. Bolivia is founded on plurality and…
Se agota – Gas – Runs out
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The official and governmental effort to rewrite history and impose the lie of the “coup” to erase the electoral fraud of 2019 contrasts with the discretion of the actions that should be taken to face the economic situation of the country, and mainly of the State. While the judicial and street persecutions…
Marcha indígena, un desafío para Arce – Indigenous march, a challenge for Arce
Editorial, Pagina Siete: For 14 years, the Evo Morales administration sold itself as an indigenous government, although it did not meet the main demands of this sector and did fill trade unionists and interculturalists with headquarters, vehicles, positions and many other things. And it is necessary to admit that the head of the MAS was…
Cerro Rico Potosi: IN PERIL – EN PELIGRO
Editorial, Página Siete: Cerro Rico: from apogee to debacle Paradoxes or open contradictions surround the attempt to save Cerro Rico de Potosí from disaster. Its sinking is clearly notorious, although warnings about it have long been established. In a period of 15 years, the gap in the very top of the hill has grown and…
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