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WHAT MAGNICIDE?
Rafael Archondo – Journalist
21 October 2021
What magnicide?
Minister Eduardo Del Castillo reports that between October 16 and 23 of last year, former Captain Germán Rivera García was passing through Bolivia. A Colombian national and known as “Mike”, his military nickname, this 40-year-old retired military man would have stayed in a room located on the 14th floor...
FILTERED AUDIO: MAS LEADERSHIP WOULD SEEK TO ACCELERATE EVO’S RETURN
The Government denies that there was a meeting of authorities last Monday
Former President Evo Morales
20 October 2021
Politics
Filtered audio: MAS leadership would seek to accelerate Evo’s return
The Government denies that there was a meeting of authorities last Monday
The audio of a conversation that would have been recorded on Monday afternoon and...
WHEN THERE IS NO MORAL
Carlos Toranzo Roca – Economist
20 October 2021
When there is no moral
Bolivia is not only experiencing a crisis of excessive State patronage and prebendalism, what we are looking at in the present is deeper than that, it is about the moral degradation of power due to the absence of ethics, due to the total loss of the values that guide daily coexistence....
STRIKES. THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK
Gonzalo Chávez Alvarez – Economist
17 October 2021
Strikes. The pot calling the kettle black
The previous Sunday I had promised to write about another of the speakers, JH Chang, from the 14th meeting of economists organized by the Central Bank of Bolivia. The political situation forces us to speak of the civic strike and its economic impact. I apologize. I’ll...
GOVERNMENT, WITHOUT LEADERSHIP OR TRUST
Juan del Granado CosíoFormer Mayor of the city of La Paz
17 October 2021
Government, without leadership or trust
Seeing President Arce as the main agitator of a MAS concentration, calling for street confrontations, portrays well the stature of a leadership that, without even fully addressing the health and economic crises, has chosen to maintain and exacerbate...
LINERA’S FIERCE RESENTMENT
Manfredo Kempff Suárez Bolivian writer, diplomat and politician.
16 October 2021
Linera’s Fierce Resentment
On top of all this mess that we’ve had with the Wiphala and with the cursed laws, as well as with some folk speeches by President Arce, we have suddenly come across some statements by former Vice-President García Linera, which exude concentrated hatred, but...
CIVIC STRIKE AGAIN, NOW WHAT?
Jhanisse Vaca Daza (Human rights and non-violence activist, co-founder of Ríos de Pie)
13 October 2021
Civic strike again, now what?
This Monday the country experienced a 24-hour strike that was felt mainly in the main cities. This national strike was carried out as a protest measure against Law 218, which, if enacted, would allow the investigation of bank accounts...
LONGARIC AND APARICIO: IACHR’S REJECTION OF AÑEZ’S REQUEST OPENS THE WAY FOR MORE VIOLATIONS IN BOLIVIA
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Karen Longaric Rodríquez, and Bolivian Ambassador, Jaime Aparicio Otero.
10 October 2021
Longaric and Aparicio: IACHR’s rejection of Añez’s request opens the way for more violations in Bolivia
Former Foreign Minister Karen Longaric and former Bolivian Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Jaime...
THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM IN BOLIVIA
Renzo Abruzzese – Sociologist
6 October 2021
The road to socialism in Bolivia
The political panorama that we live in shows clear symptoms of having reached a threshold point. The false certainty of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), according to which 55% of the electoral victory was a blank check that enabled them to do whatever they wanted, has come to...
ARCE OR THE GIANT WITH FEET OF CLAY
Lessons from two weeks of a hard battle to recover the Departmental Association of Coca Producers (ADEPCOCA)
Edwin Cacho Herrera – Journalist
5 October 2021
Arce or the giant with feet of clay
The powerful MAS Government is weak on the streets. They enraged the Yungas coca growers by taking away their coca leaf trading market to hand it over to a...
JUDICIAL REFORM FOR DEMOCRACY
Ramiro Orias Arredondo
29 September 2021
Judicial Reform for Democracy
Since continuing Bolivian democracy was recovered in 1982, one of the greatest institutional challenges -still pending almost 40 years later- is the reform of the justice administration system.
In these last four decades, the political system responded with some initiatives –unfortunately,...
Is Bolivia near the precipice?
Agustín Zambrana ArzeLawyer, Journalist-Director of the Bunker
26 September 2021
Is Bolivia near the precipice?
The Government of Añez is not qualifiable to argue that Bolivia was taken into bankruptcy, just as this Government (Añez) was not constituted by angels either, however, saddle it with the economic or health disaster is clearly politicking, with a clear...
