Social and political instability, the perpetual scourge of the orange economy in Bolivia | La inestabilidad social y política, el eterno verdugo de la economía naranja en Bolivia

By Gina Baldivieso, EFE, Vision 360: Tourism and Gastronomy Among the most affected sectors are tourism and gastronomy, which suffered a severe setback during the post-electoral political and social crisis of 2019 and later due to the restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourists stroll through the area known as the Witches’ Alley, in the center…

Tiempo de barbarie – Time of barbarism

Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: Time of barbarism Not because an illiterate coca grower has become president of the Republic, others of a similar condition are going to believe they have the same right. At least that one had learned to read in his little school in the country, and that was enough to make him…

Undemocratic – evo/MAS – Antidemocrático

Editorial, Pagina Siete: The MAS, Evo and the mobilizations The country is mired in a pandemic that reaches, especially in the seat of Government and some western cities, its highest peak. And yet, the priority now is the political situation, exacerbated to the maximum because power groups linked to the MAS maintain an incomprehensible roadblock,…

Defeat – MAS – Derrotarle

Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: MAS has to be defeated The MAS returned to what it used to be in the hands of García Linera, a terrorist group, since that is what the MAS is doing on the country’s highways; so far the former vice president has not returned what he stole from the UMSS. Morales’s…

Bolivian bishops to protesters: Stop using pandemic for political purposes

The Catholic Universe reports: Bolivia’s bishops issued an urgent appeal for protesters to remove roadblocks, which have caused fears of shortages of medical supplies and oxygen in highland regions of the South American country amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The roadblocks — a common form of protest in Bolivia, where mountainous terrain creates choke points for…

Unhinged – MAS – Desquiciado

Violent masistas who only want to keep their acronym, after their candidate’s mistake of speaking about polls, prohibited in their own electoral law … Masistas violentos que solo quieren mantener su sigla, despuéss del error de su candidato de hablar de encuestas, prohibido en su propia ley electoral … Violent events: vandalism, blockades in pandemic,…