What the End of Bolivia’s President Means for the Country

Ian Bremmer reports for Time: Evo Morales, the President of Bolivia, fled to Mexico on Nov. 12, and his country now faces an uncertain future. Morales had little choice. Evidence that he had tried to steal his country’s latest presidential election pushed hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Bolivia’s largest cities in…

Bolivia Corruption Rank [under evo, the lowest ever, as expected!]

Pagina Siete reports, excerpts follow: … Bolivia obtained a score of 29 out of 100, where zero is very corrupt and 100 is very transparent, the country is ranked 132. … https://www.paginasiete.bo/economia/2019/1/30/bolivia-obtiene-su-peor-calificacion-sobre-percepcion-de-corrupcion-de-ultimos-siete-anos-207500.html Trading Economist reports: Bolivia is the 132 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by…

Transparency International ranks Bolivia’s corruption

I made this collage from Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2011. On the left, there is the scale by color and numbers from the very clean to the highly corrupt perception for 2011. Below the title in black, Bolivia’s map with its “corruption’s color and those of our neighbors. To the right, the list of…