Control the past?
Carlos Federico Valverde Bravo20 June 2021Control 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 future;...
My Word to the Country
Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert16 June 2021My Word to the CountryThroughout 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 human rights...
‘SYSTEMATIC FRAUD’
José Luis Exeni Rodríguez13 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...
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 Bretel13 June 2021JORGE TUTO QUIROGA, THE ‘YUPPIE’ THAT DAZZLED GENERAL BANZERIt is an...
THE JOKER, FRANKENSTEIN, OR CONCURRENCE
Alejandro Colanzi Zeballos12 June 2021THE JOKER, FRANKENSTEIN, OR CONCURRENCEAt 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...
Prosecutors of hatred and submission
Manfredo Kempff10 June 2021Prosecutors of hatred and submissionAll 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...
The Scam
Susana Seleme Antelo9 June 2021The 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...
Vaccines and Geopolitics
Humberto Vacaflor Ganam8 May 2021Vaccines and GeopoliticsPresident 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...
THE “PITITAS”, THE BEST OF 2019
Rolando Tellería A.28 December 2019THE “PITITAS”, THE BEST OF 2019Its 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...
