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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE REVOLUTION OF THE PITITAS BOOK
THE REVOLUTION OF THE PITITAS BOOK
21 June 2021
PAGINA SIETE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
Former President Jeanine Añez has based part of her statement before the Prosecutor’s Office on the book La revolucion de las Pititas , which was prepared by the journalists of Pagina...
Control the past?
Carlos Federico Valverde Bravo
20 June 2021
Control the past?
I have the habit of re-reading Orwell from time to time, so it is not difficult for me to go to him every time the MAS tries to “write the past” to justify the present and, to a certain extent, ensure its...
My Word to the Country
Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert
16 June 2021
My Word to the Country
Throughout my life I have been committed to Bolivia and to democracy, I have practiced it, I have defended it and I have detached myself from power when I had it, because of my conviction that respect for...
ANGELA FROM HER OWN DARKNESS: A TALE BY RENÉ BASCOPÉ ASPIAZU
ANGELA FROM HER OWN DARKNESS: A TALE BY RENÉ BASCOPÉ ASPIAZU
I cannot recall when I began to feel fear for that room in the second courtyard. However, I think I remember an afternoon when we were playing soccer, when the rag ball hit the closed door with force, making its...
‘SYSTEMATIC FRAUD’
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...
JORGE TUTO QUIROGA, THE ‘YUPPIE’ THAT DAZZLED GENERAL BANZER
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...
THE JOKER, FRANKENSTEIN, OR CONCURRENCE
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,...
Prosecutors of hatred and submission
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,...
The Scam
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...
Light at the end of the tunnel or more tunnel at the end of the light?
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),...
Vaccines and Geopolitics
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...
THE “PITITAS”, THE BEST OF 2019
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...
