Gary Prado is more than just the capture of Che
Arch. Fernando Prado Salmon
8 May 2023
Gary Prado is more than just the capture of Che
I apologize to my kind readers if today I comment on something that touches me closely but that I think is of interest to the whole country: General Gary Prado Salmon has left...
“What is happening to Bolivian diplomacy today did not happen even in the worst dictatorships,” said Viscarra.
The diplomat made observations about the country’s foreign service and proposed ways in which the national diplomatic service can be redirected. He recommends that we leave our ostracism and open ourselves up to the world.
Javier Viscarra, Diplomat.
24 December...
BOLIVIA, AN INVISIBLE DICTATORSHIP
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...
THEIR TIME IS UP
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,...
A PARALLEL WORLD OF LIES
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,...
JUSTICE IN BOLIVIA: FROM CRISIS TO CATASTROPHE
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”...
UKRAINE AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR BOLIVIA
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...
HYPOCRISY, BAD IDEAS AND HALF-TRUTHS
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...
CHANCELLOR BY FORCE
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...
SEA OF MISTAKES
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...
IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO OVERTHROW A DICTATOR
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...
RELEASE JEANINE AÑEZ, NOW!
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...
A CERTAIN EVO…
Carlos Valverde BravoJournalist, political analyst, and writer
9 January 2022
A certain Evo…
He did not wake up one day with a conscience smeared with “morality” and realized that corruption is the worst scourge in the country; in his government, he had...
HAPPY FLIGHT 2022!
Andrés Gómez VelaJournalist and University Professor
2 January 2022
HAPPY FLIGHT 2022!
Many times I imagined life as a finite journey on a ship called planet Earth. A journey of 365 continuous days; in leap years, 366. The flight includes a round-trip around the...
THE ABSURDITY OF THE SPOKESMAN
Manfredo Kempff SuárezBolivian writer, diplomat, and politician.
27 December 2021
The Absurdity of the Spokesman
That the spokesman Richter affirms that the Santa Cruz model is “exhausted” is nameless nonsense. The fact that some crooks in the Santa Cruz Mayor’s...
OBITUARY OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia
9 December 2021
Obituary of a death foretold
The time is coming. The obituary of the MAS of Evo Morales has already been written by none other than one of the...
MARCHES AND HANGOVERS
Hernán Terrazas E.Journalist
6 December 2021
Marches and Hangovers
And the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) march reached La Paz, there were a few effusive speeches, the usual adjectives, the occasional threat of the usual against companies and businessmen, and...
THE BUDGET OF HORROR
Antonio SaraviaPh.D. in Economics
5 December 2021
The budget of horror
The General State Budget (GSB) for 2022 is a horror movie. The horror it produces comes not only from the numbers that, as always, do not add up, but, above all, from the intentions of the...
RIBERA TAKES THE AÑEZ CASE TO THE WORLD CONGRESS OF LAW ON DEMOCRACY IN COLOMBIA
Carolina Ribera at the world forum of lawyers in Colombia. Photo: Página Siete .
2 December 2021
Ribera takes the Añez case to the World Congress of Law on democracy in Colombia
The daughter of former President Jeanine Añez will speak at the meeting about the...
A MULTIFACETED MAN, A NEW MAN
Guadalupe Peres-Cajías
2 December 2021
A multifaceted man, a new man
He was the founder and director of Presencia, an emblematic newspaper. He studied Philosophy and Law and inspired hundreds to teach in these areas. His book on Criminology is a fundamental guide...
FROM FRAUD TO FRAUD?
Manfredo Kempff SuárezWriter
25 November 2021
From fraud to fraud?
In addition to the electoral fraud that Evo Morales carried out in October last year, apparently, another fraud occurred against the people in October 2020; it means that national democracy is not...
FORMER TRIBUNAL MEMBER BAPTISTA REVEALS THAT THE SUPREME ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL (TSE) DID NOT RESOLVE TWO CAUSES OF ACTION THAT COULD HAVE LED TO THE LOSS OF THE MAS LEGAL STATUS
Rosario Baptista Canedo Former Supreme Electoral Tribunal Member
22 November 2021
Former Tribunal member Baptista reveals that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) did not resolve two causes of action that could have led to the loss of the MAS legal status
The...
ROSARIO BAPTISTA: A CALL FOR THE RESCUE OF THE PLURINATIONAL ELECTORAL BODY (OEP)
Juan del Granado CosíoLawyer, former Parlamentarian and Mayor of La Paz
“The total control of all State Bodies by the ruling party (…) has left the vote as the only surviving element, but under technical, institutional, and legal conditions that make it nominal, since...
MUCH MORE THAN JUST OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
Maggy Talavera Journalist
21 November 2021
Much more than just occupational hazards
It is already known that each profession has its own barriers or difficulties to be overcome by those who exercise it. They are barriers and difficulties, we could say, specific...
THE ELECTORAL REGISTER THAT WE HAVE
Humberto Vacaflor GanamJournalist
20 November 2021
The electoral register that we have
Memories of the present
“Thanks to this spectacular growth in the electoral register, the goal of President Morales of September 7th was finally reached. From 2,616,846...
A LIE HAS NO LEGS, BUT…
Juan Cristóbal Soruco Q.Journalist
19 November 2021
A lie has no legs, but…
When the lie becomes a resource of State management, there are moments, in which the lie is constantly reproduced, that it seems to be true.
The issue is relevant when observing...
HOW ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
Agustín Zambrana Arze Journalist, Lawyer, and a patriotic activist.
15 November 2021
How are we and where are we heading?
In the political sphere, the Bolivian population finds itself on opposite positions, between an ethnocentric socialist approach, which seeks...
LICENSE TO KILL
Susana Seleme Antelo Journalist and Political Analyst
12 November 2021
License to kill
“It is not just a law… it is a much more serious problem that points to an authoritarian government, determined to impose its will over the national interest and without any...
Tik Tok DIPLOMACY
9 November 2021
Tik Tok Diplomacy
By: Iván Camarlinghi – Diplomat and Journalist
A few days ago, the former Ambassador to Paraguay Mario Cronenbold was dismissed from his duties for the mockery he made of one of the traditions of the Guaraní people: the...
The diplo(MAS)cy
Puka Reyesvilla – University Professor
5 November 2021
The diplo(MAS)cy
“In the world of international relations, where ‘misunderstandings’ are generally the best understandings, this phenomenon is exacerbated by the hardly reversible effect of the term used,”...
TikTok LEVEL FOREIGN SERVICE
4 November 2021
TikTok level Foreign Service
El Deber Newspaper Editorial
The Bolivian Government yesterday dismissed Mario Cronenbold from his functions as extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador in Paraguay as a result of a publication by him on the social...
FIDEL, PINOCHET AND PROSPERITY
Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia
2 November 2021
Fidel, Pinochet and Prosperity
I have extracted from my memoirs a colossal incident. In the early 1990s, the Cuban Ambassador to Chile visited Andrónico...
PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTS
Amalia Pando – Journalist
1 November 2021
PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTS
CRIMINALS IN POWER
Dulfredo Suárez do Santos is identified as the ringleader of the gang of land-grabbers that operates in Guarayos.
The ringleader of the band of...
THE FAILED SPECTACLE OF THE MAS AT THE OAS
Jaime Aparicio Otero Career Diplomat, former Bolivian Ambassador to the United States
24 October 2021
The failed spectacle of the MAS at the OAS
A curious fauna of colorful characters: nostalgic for Che Guevara, statistical scholars under a contract of a radical NGO,...
IMPRISONED DUE TO A CELL PHONE NUMBER
Andrés Gómez Vela Journalist
24 October 2021
Imprisoned due to a cell phone number
Martín Luque felt an infinite emptiness in his stomach the moment the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Violence against Women investigating judge 2 from El Alto, Miriam Tarqui Flores, ordered...
A TERRIFYING “TORTURE BUS” RUNS IN THE CHONCHOCORO PRISON
Prosecutor Ruddy Terrazas announced that in the preliminary phase, four inmates and two policemen are being investigated for the death of inmate Cristofer Quispe.
The “torture bus”, on the premises of the Chonchocoro prison, where the inmates are isolated. Photo: Luis...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Diplomatic fiasco at the CELAC Summit
Jaime Aparicio Otero Career Diplomat, former Bolivian Ambassador to the United States
26 September 2021
Diplomatic fiasco at the CELAC Summit
States with a professional foreign service know that it is never wise to announce a foreign policy initiative whose chances...
Bolivia will substitute imports to industrialize the country as part of the national economic reactivation
The President indicated that the substitution of imported products for a value of US $ 800 to 900 million is planned when the construction of the ecological diesel plant in the country is completed.
22 July 2021
Bolivia will substitute imports to industrialize the...
Analysts: Persecution strategy was effective and silenced the opposition
The experts pointed out that Evo Morales was skillful and could do politics after his resignation, and that both Jeanine Añez and her Ministers “were too naively trusting.”
Former President Jeanine Añez.Photo: Archive.
22 July 2021
Analysts: Persecution strategy was...
Human Rights compares Cox with Arce Gomez and denounces him to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations (UN) for “abuse of power”
Cox was an Ombudsman and now a Vice Minister. Photo: VRIP.
22 July 2021
Human Rights compares Cox with Arce Gomez and denounces him to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations (UN) for “abuse of power”
The Permanent Assembly for...
Chile eases border restrictions for nationals and resident foreigners
The borders remain officially closed, Chileans and residents who have completed their scheduled vaccines will be able to leave and enter the trans-Andean country.
22 July 2021
Chile eases border restrictions for nationals and resident foreigners
The Chilean...
Chilean Senators hope that Bolivia’s refusal to negotiate rates is not an “artificial conflict”
The legislators indicated that they hope that this attitude is not part of a strategy to generate an artificial conflict of a bilateral nature. “The negotiations must continue to be framed in the commercial sphere, as was done in 2019,” they said.
Senators Jose Miguel...
Mesa: Both Evo and Arce are autocrats and not two Presidents who are fulfilling their mandates
The former President and Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) leader mentioned more than a dozen public institutions, whose senior officers are on an interim basis.
Former President and leader of Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), Carlos Mesa.Photo: Archive.
21 July 2021
Mesa: Both Evo...
Government analyzes activating “international criminal proceedings” for the alleged coup
The Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, Nelson Cox. Photo: Archive.
21 July 2021
Government analyzes activating “international criminal proceedings” for the alleged coup
The Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, Nelson Cox, announced that they will resort to the...
Government warns: Politicians who misinform about arms trafficking will be linked to the case
The Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, Nelson Cox. Photo: Archive.
21 July 2021
Government warns: Politicians who misinform about arms trafficking will be linked to the case
The Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, dependent on the Ministry of Government, Nelson Cox,...
Health confirms that all ICU patients are unvaccinated
Patients in the ICU of the Hospital de Clínicas. / Photo: Archive.
21 July 2021
Health confirms that all ICU patients are unvaccinated
The Vice Minister of Health Insurance and Management of the Unified Health System, Alejandra Hidalgo, said this Wednesday that the...
Del Castillo: “We do not have any transcendental element that demonstrates the participation of other countries in the coup”
The Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, in a past press conference. Photo: Facebook (Bolivian Ministry of Government).
Del Castillo: “We do not have any transcendental element that demonstrates the participation of other countries in the coup”
21 July 2021...
Cochabamba Youth Resistance (RJC) member hospitalized and his defense denounces that the detention is illegal
Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Police, Nelson Cox, after his inauguration. APG
21 July 2021
Cochabamba Youth Resistance (RJC) member hospitalized and his defense denounces that the detention is illegal
Mario Bascope, a member of the Cochabamba Youth Resistance...
