Editorial, Página Siete: It turns out that there is life for the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) apart from Evo Morales. Long life. This is not good news for the former president asylee in Argentina who, contrary to what the figures say, interprets that the vote received by Luis Arce is a message asking for his…
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¿Qué pasó? – What happened?
Raúl Peñaranda, Página Siete: Reasons for the victory of MAS One of the reasons for the high MAS vote in last Sunday’s elections is that, in addition to support for candidate Luis Arce, there was a “punishment vote” against the transitional government. Hundreds of thousands of people who had supported Evo Morales’s party in the…
¿Y ahora qué? – Now, what?
Editorial, El Diario: Pathetic inheritance for the new government Whichever new government holds the reins of the State in its hands, it will encounter great economic and, therefore, social and political difficulties. The waste of the last fourteen years by the mismanagement of the MAS of Evo Morales-García Linera reaches incredible proportions. Added to that…
Bolivia’s election is a test for Latin American socialism — and democracy
Monica Machicao and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Half a century after the execution of leftist firebrand Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the Bolivian jungle, the forces of the political right and left are once again waging ideological war in this impoverished Andean nation. Bolivia is heading toward a bitterly disputed presidential…
As Bolivia election nears, could ‘Evonomics’ make a comeback?
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian voters, hit hard by political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic, are looking for some economic certainty ahead of elections on Oct. 18, which opinion polls suggest could boost the country’s socialists and see a return of ‘Evonomics’. The Andean country was one of Latin America’s steadiest economic…
mintió – evo – lied
Editorial, El Diario: Evo did not make any structural changes Luis Arce Catacora, MAS presidential candidate and former Minister of Economy of former President Evo Morales, protected by his ignorance of political economy, declared, in an abstract way, that during his time in power, the MAS made “structural changes” in reality of the country, but…
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