Gary Prado is more than just the capture of Che
Arch. Fernando Prado Salmon8 May 2023Gary Prado is more than just the capture of CheI 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 us, a remarkable...
BOLIVIA, AN INVISIBLE DICTATORSHIP
Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia10 May 2022BOLIVIA, AN INVISIBLE DICTATORSHIPFor decades it was said that Mexico lived under a “perfect dictatorship.” After the revolutionary process, the Institutional...
THEIR TIME IS UP
Humberto Vacaflor Ganam Journalist20 February 2022Their time is upIt 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, this means the end of...
A PARALLEL WORLD OF LIES
Amalia Pando – Journalist14 February 2022A PARALLEL WORLD OF LIESPresident-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, they are giving us...
JUSTICE IN BOLIVIA: FROM CRISIS TO CATASTROPHE
Maggy TalaveraJournalist6 February 2022Justice in Bolivia: from crisis to catastropheDefinitely: 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” the very...
HYPOCRISY, BAD IDEAS AND HALF-TRUTHS
Antonio SaraviaPhD in Economics31 January 2022Hypocrisy, bad ideas and half-truthsThe 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 half-truths....
CHANCELLOR BY FORCE
Alfonso Gumucio DagrónWriter and Filmmaker22 January 2022Chancellor by forceWhat 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 apparatus motivated...
SEA OF MISTAKES
Ronald MacLean AbaroaFormer Chancellor19 January 2022Sea 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 an erratic...
IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO OVERTHROW A DICTATOR
Amalia Pando – Journalist16 January 2022IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO OVERTHROW A DICTATORA 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 struggles within the...
RELEASE JEANINE AÑEZ, NOW!
Susana Seleme AnteloJournalist and Political Analyst12 January 2022Release 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 preventive...
A CERTAIN EVO…
Carlos Valverde BravoJournalist, political analyst, and writer9 January 2022A 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 exercised it at...
HAPPY FLIGHT 2022!
Andrés Gómez VelaJournalist and University Professor2 January 2022HAPPY 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 Sun star....
THE ABSURDITY OF THE SPOKESMAN
Manfredo Kempff SuárezBolivian writer, diplomat, and politician.27 December 2021The Absurdity of the SpokesmanThat 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 Office have...
OBITUARY OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia9 December 2021Obituary of a death foretoldThe time is coming. The obituary of the MAS of Evo Morales has already been written by none other than one of the theoretical fathers of...
MARCHES AND HANGOVERS
Hernán Terrazas E.Journalist6 December 2021 Marches and HangoversAnd 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 even a few...
THE BUDGET OF HORROR
Antonio SaraviaPh.D. in Economics5 December 2021The budget of horrorThe 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 Government that...
A MULTIFACETED MAN, A NEW MAN
Guadalupe Peres-Cajías2 December 2021A multifaceted man, a new manHe 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 on this...
FROM FRAUD TO FRAUD?
Manfredo Kempff SuárezWriter25 November 2021From 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 worth a damn,...
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 the...
MUCH MORE THAN JUST OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
Maggy Talavera Journalist21 November 2021Much more than just occupational hazardsIt 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 to each one of...
THE ELECTORAL REGISTER THAT WE HAVE
Humberto Vacaflor GanamJournalist 20 November 2021The electoral register that we haveMemories 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 registered voters on...
A LIE HAS NO LEGS, BUT…
Juan Cristóbal Soruco Q.Journalist19 November 2021A 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 the behavior of the...
HOW ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
Agustín Zambrana Arze Journalist, Lawyer, and a patriotic activist.15 November 2021How 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 to reach...
LICENSE TO KILL
Susana Seleme Antelo Journalist and Political Analyst 12 November 2021License 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 2021Tik Tok DiplomacyBy: Iván Camarlinghi – Diplomat and JournalistA 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 Tereré, as...
The diplo(MAS)cy
Puka Reyesvilla – University Professor5 November 2021The 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,” says Benoit...
TikTok LEVEL FOREIGN SERVICE
4 November 2021TikTok level Foreign ServiceEl Deber Newspaper EditorialThe 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 entertainment...
FIDEL, PINOCHET AND PROSPERITY
Ronald MacLean Abaroa Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia2 November 2021Fidel, Pinochet and ProsperityI have extracted from my memoirs a colossal incident. In the early 1990s, the Cuban Ambassador to Chile visited Andrónico Luksic...
PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTS
Amalia Pando – Journalist1 November 2021PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTSCRIMINALS IN POWERDulfredo Suárez do Santos is identified as the ringleader of the gang of land-grabbers that operates in Guarayos.The ringleader of the band of land-grabbersFor a...
THE FAILED SPECTACLE OF THE MAS AT THE OAS
Jaime Aparicio Otero Career Diplomat, former Bolivian Ambassador to the United States24 October 2021The failed spectacle of the MAS at the OASA curious fauna of colorful characters: nostalgic for Che Guevara, statistical scholars under a contract of a radical NGO, compulsive...
IMPRISONED DUE TO A CELL PHONE NUMBER
Andrés Gómez Vela Journalist24 October 2021Imprisoned due to a cell phone numberMartín 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 his arrest...
WHAT MAGNICIDE?
Rafael Archondo – Journalist21 October 2021What 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...
WHEN THERE IS NO MORAL
Carlos Toranzo Roca – Economist 20 October 2021When there is no moralBolivia 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...
STRIKES. THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK
Gonzalo Chávez Alvarez – Economist17 October 2021Strikes. The pot calling the kettle blackThe 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...
GOVERNMENT, WITHOUT LEADERSHIP OR TRUST
Juan del Granado CosíoFormer Mayor of the city of La Paz17 October 2021Government, without leadership or trustSeeing President Arce as the main agitator of a MAS concentration, calling for street confrontations, portrays well the stature of a leadership that, without even...
LINERA’S FIERCE RESENTMENT
Manfredo Kempff Suárez Bolivian writer, diplomat and politician.16 October 2021Linera’s Fierce ResentmentOn 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...
CIVIC STRIKE AGAIN, NOW WHAT?
Jhanisse Vaca Daza (Human rights and non-violence activist, co-founder of Ríos de Pie)13 October 2021Civic 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...
THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM IN BOLIVIA
Renzo Abruzzese – Sociologist6 October 2021The road to socialism in BoliviaThe 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...
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 – Journalist5 October 2021Arce or the giant with feet of clayThe powerful MAS Government is weak on the streets. They enraged the Yungas coca...
JUDICIAL REFORM FOR DEMOCRACY
Ramiro Orias Arredondo29 September 2021Judicial Reform for DemocracySince 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...
Is Bolivia near the precipice?
Agustín Zambrana ArzeLawyer, Journalist-Director of the Bunker 26 September 2021Is 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,...
Diplomatic fiasco at the CELAC Summit
Jaime Aparicio Otero Career Diplomat, former Bolivian Ambassador to the United States26 September 2021Diplomatic fiasco at the CELAC SummitStates with a professional foreign service know that it is never wise to announce a foreign policy initiative whose chances of failure...
THE REVOLUTION OF THE PITITAS BOOK
THE REVOLUTION OF THE PITITAS BOOK21 June 2021PAGINA SIETE NEWSPAPER EDITORIALFormer 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 Siete after...
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...
Reunión Biden-Putin: de los ataques cibernéticos a la política energética, el Presidente debe enfrentarse a Rusia
Michael R. PompeoBiden está malgastando la ventaja con relación a Rusia que heredó de la administración TrumpEl Presidente Biden se reunirá con el Presidente ruso Vladimir Putin en las próximas 25 horas. Lamentablemente, para la seguridad estadounidense, se presenta con una...
ANGELA FROM HER OWN DARKNESS: A TALE BY RENÉ BASCOPÉ ASPIAZU
ANGELA FROM HER OWN DARKNESS: A TALE BY RENÉ BASCOPÉ ASPIAZUI 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 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...
