More Shadows Over the MAS | Más sombras en el MAS

By El País, Eju.tv: After the Huarachi Case: Calls to Investigate Other Union Leaders Allied with the MAS Government Grassroots campesinos are now targeting leaders such as Herber Quispe, Andrés Meriles, and Julia Ramos for allegedly receiving funds from the Arce administration. The COD is joining the request to investigate additional union figures. Some of…

Salaries and redistribution

Rodolfo Erostegui writes in Pagina Siete: Salaries and redistribution The negotiation on wages should become a pretext of the three social partners on the creation of decent jobs and the equitable distribution of national income. But generally they only end up discussing over the amount they have to increase on the wage. This year seems…

Was he acting as a union leader or as a country’s president?

To me, the reaction of current Bolivian president fits within the union’s ‘culture’ in Bolivia. People in the board of a syndicate can not be fired, they are asked to leave because they were not hired, they were elected. When that happened, many people said the president lacked managerial skills, why he had to embarrass…

Former ally accuses current government of generating the social conflicts

Pagina Siete reports: [The former ally of current government, the political party] Without Fear Movement [MSM] issued a statement on the recent social developments, which points out that conflicts are caused and promoted by the Government of President Evo Morales. The document – entitled “the origin of social conflicts is the plan of repositioning the…