Retraso económico – Economic backwardness

Editorial, El Diario: Factors behind the backwardness of our economy Mentions from the President, his Minister of Economy and others from the presidential Cabinet propagate an accelerated reactivation of the national economy. The parliamentary majority acts as a sounding board for the Executive Branch and joins such fallacies with the attempt to engulf the citizenry….

Bolivia’s current presidential scandal goes beyond sex

From the Miami Herald: Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s scandal goes beyond sex The scandal over Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales’ secret love affair, with a young woman with whom he had a child who the president says has died, but the woman says is alive, is making headlines throughout Latin America. But that’s the least outrageous…

Worldwide embarrassment: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals

CNN reports: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. First, the Bolivian leader had to accept defeat in a referendum making his current presidential term his last, and now he is at the center of a scandal that reads like a Bolivian…

Nationwide, Bolivian public servants need to do a BETTER job!!!

We say we are a poor country, that we need lots of infrastructure of all sorts… etc. However, there is a simple thing that ALL current politicians must do: a better job!! for heaven’s sake! Pagina Siete reports: The Government already submitted the 2012 PGE [General State’s Budget] to the Legislative 45% budget execution of…