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José Luis Exeni Rodríguez 13 June 2021 ‘Systematic Fraud’ The three times defeated presidential candidate in Peru, Keiko Fujimori, coined a new expression in the already long list of (unproven) complaints in electoral processes in the region: “systematic fraud.” And with that flag, she intends to annul 200,000 votes to reverse the narrow victory of Pedro Castillo...

Tuto has not stopped losing, although he takes the consolation of having participated in the successful conspiracy that ousted Morales from the presidency in November 2019. By Julio Peñaloza Bretel 13 June 2021 JORGE TUTO QUIROGA, THE ‘YUPPIE’ THAT DAZZLED GENERAL BANZER It is an interesting challenge to establish which of Jorge Quiroga Ramírez’s paternal...

Alejandro Colanzi Zeballos 12 June 2021 THE JOKER, FRANKENSTEIN, OR CONCURRENCE At the outset of the 19th century, Mary Shelley wrote and portrayed the character created (with good intentions) by Dr. Frankenstein, from whom the latter’s creation receives the name, and who has become an “evil” being due to his ugliness and marginality (social process of interaction...

Manfredo Kempff 10 June 2021 Prosecutors of hatred and submission All the powerful, throughout the ages, have had justice under their feet. Surely, in the last century, Hitler and Stalin were the most notorious masters of justice, although surely that Trujillo, Somoza, Castro and other banana autocrats had it in our Latin America. Today Maduro, Ortega and Morales...

Susana Seleme Antelo 9 June 2021 The Scam “In the end, what is the future?” reflects the curator, “an excuse to talk about the present.” Gregorio Belinchon. To speak, also, of the past. In today’s Bolivia, since the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is impossible not to remember the burden of the past almost 14 years of President Evo Morales. It is a past that is...

Gonzalo Chávez Alvarez 6 June 2021 Light at the end of the tunnel or more tunnel at the end of the light? After the worst global economic crisis in decades, several international organizations, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), forecast a strong recovery from the recession. The world economy will rebound by 5.8% in 2021....

Humberto Vacaflor Ganam 8 May 2021 Vaccines and Geopolitics President Luis Arce has told Bolivians that the contract for the purchase of Russian vaccines against the Chinese virus cannot be disseminated because it contains a “confidentiality clause.” The Argentine Peronists agreed to something similar with the Chinese: there, too, the details cannot be...

Rolando Tellería A. 28 December 2019 THE «PITITAS», THE BEST OF 2019 Its content is very comprehensive, as it would have acquired a plurality of connotations such as: freedom, resistance, rebellion, emancipation, organization, union, integration, etc. Due to its effects, it also reached a highly philosophical content, without prejudice to what those who have been...