Bolivian news
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Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia 10 May 2022 BOLIVIA, AN INVISIBLE DICTATORSHIP For decades it was said that Mexico lived under a “perfect dictatorship.” After the revolutionary process, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was established in 1929 and ruled with an iron fist for more than 70...

Humberto Vacaflor Ganam Journalist 20 February 2022 Their time is up It took a long time, but the time has come when the “empire” identified drug trafficking as an ally of the axis of autocracies and has decided to fight it throughout the world. For Bolivia, this means the end of an era, marked by the political dominance of figures and organizations linked...

Amalia Pando – Journalist 14 February 2022 A PARALLEL WORLD OF LIES President-dictator Luis Arce announced from Oruro the discovery of new gas reserves and it is a complete lie. He said: “last year we started an exploration in the Margarita-Huacaya well, they are giving us good results, brothers, we are finding gas reserves in this well that we explored...

Maggy TalaveraJournalist 6 February 2022 Justice in Bolivia: from crisis to catastrophe Definitely: what justice is facing today in Bolivia has ceased to be just a crisis (as if it were not enough that it is in a “serious and decisive situation” that “endangers” the very survival of the country), to transform into a true and frightening catastrophe. That is, in...

José María Cabrera DalenceFormer Attorney General 2 February 2022 Ukraine and its importance for Bolivia Vassily Nebenzia, Russian Ambassador to the UN and an exponent of old school Russian diplomacy, had to leave the unfinished session of the United Nations Security Council itself, notably upset, where the United States had unexpectedly managed, by ten votes...

Antonio SaraviaPhD in Economics 31 January 2022 Hypocrisy, bad ideas and half-truths The speech delivered by President Arce on January 22, during the celebrations for the anniversary of the Plurinational State, was a true display of hypocrisy, bad ideas, and half-truths. Probably the only redeeming feature was that it lasted only 40 minutes instead of the usual...

Alfonso Gumucio DagrónWriter and Filmmaker 22 January 2022 Chancellor by force What can be said of a chancellor whose most important visible act has been to fall ill with Covid? For everything else he has been invisible: the shadowy operator of a repressive apparatus motivated by animosity and political revenge. In the first scene of Molière’s farce “The...

Ronald MacLean AbaroaFormer Chancellor 19 January 2022 Sea of mistakes “Don’t look up.” As in a recent movie, a new mega meteorite is fast approaching that will have a devastating impact on the heart of our relationship -or lack of it- with Chile; all because of an erratic national foreign policy ignorant of the consequences of irresponsibility. The...

Amalia Pando – Journalist 16 January 2022 IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO OVERTHROW A DICTATOR A shadow of hopelessness covers the country. Luis Arce, being a small-time leader, heads a dictatorship tougher than that of Evo Morales, and despite the struggles within the Government and the MAS for power quotas in the cabinet and in state-owned companies,...

Susana Seleme AnteloJournalist and Political Analyst 12 January 2022 Release Jeanine Añez, now! “From her vulnerable position, Jeanine Añez speaks her truth. Fear does not silence her.”Roberto Laserna on twitter. One day before the tenth month of her abusive preventive detention* Jeanine Añez Chávez affirmed: “I know that there is an order to kill me...