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...
“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 2022Javier...
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...
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...
UKRAINE AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR BOLIVIA
José María Cabrera DalenceFormer Attorney General 2 February 2022Ukraine and its importance for BoliviaVassily Nebenzia, Russian Ambassador to the UN and an exponent of old school Russian diplomacy, had to leave the unfinished session of the United Nations Security Council...
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...
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...
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 2021Ribera takes the Añez case to the World Congress of Law on democracy in ColombiaThe daughter of former President Jeanine Añez will speak at the meeting about the “political...
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,...
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 Member22 November 2021Former 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 statusThe former electoral...
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...
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...
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...
FILTERED AUDIO: MAS LEADERSHIP WOULD SEEK TO ACCELERATE EVO’S RETURN
The Government denies that there was a meeting of authorities last MondayFormer President Evo Morales20 October 2021PoliticsFiltered audio: MAS leadership would seek to accelerate Evo’s return The Government denies that there was a meeting of authorities last Monday The audio...
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...
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...
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 2021Longaric and Aparicio: IACHR’s rejection of Añez’s request opens the way for more violations in BoliviaFormer Foreign Minister Karen Longaric...
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...
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...
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 2021Bolivia will substitute imports to industrialize the country as...
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 2021Analysts: Persecution strategy was effective...
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 2021Human 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 Human Rights...
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 Durana...
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 2021Mesa: Both Evo and Arce are...
Government analyzes activating “international criminal proceedings” for the alleged coup
The Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, Nelson Cox. Photo: Archive.21 July 2021Government analyzes activating “international criminal proceedings” for the alleged coupThe Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, Nelson Cox, announced that they will resort to the activation of...
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 2021Government warns: Politicians who misinform about arms trafficking will be linked to the caseThe Vice Minister of Internal Affairs, dependent on the Ministry of Government, Nelson Cox, reported this...
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 2021After...
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. APG21 July 2021Cochabamba Youth Resistance (RJC) member hospitalized and his defense denounces that the detention is illegalMario Bascope, a member of the Cochabamba Youth Resistance (RJC), who...
Unlike Rivas, there are no prosecutions for the escape of Kaliman
Former Chief Commander of the Armed Forces, Williams Kaliman. Photo: APG.20 July 2021To date, the Ministry of Government has not initiated legal proceedings against those responsible for the escape of former Commander of the Armed Forces Williams Kaliman, as it did in a...
Bolivian Government accuses four countries and the European Union of alleged “coup”
The suitcase with the “gloves” sign that was used in the event. Photo: Ministry of Government20 July 2021The Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, and former President Evo Morales accused the Donald Trump administration as responsible for the alleged “coup d’État” in...
It is perceived that Evo is becoming more radicalized as his image erodes
Evo Morales, leader of the MAS, was described as authoritarian. Photo: (Twitter: @evoespueblo).20 July 2021After his statements about national reconciliation generated a stir, analysts and politicians identify that Evo Morales, president of the Movement Towards Socialism...
Former Military Chiefs accused of sedition were from the trusted environment of Evo Morales
Photo: ABIThe former military chiefs who are now accused of the crimes of terrorism, sedition, and conspiracy were part of Evo Morales’ circle of trust.General Williams Kaliman Romero, who was the chief commander and today the main accused of sedition, is the only one who was...
The Government aims at 30 years in prison for military and police personnel involved in the case of Argentine riot gear
The material found was presented. Photo: Ministry of Government19 July 2021IT IS CONSIDERED ARMS TRAFFICKINGThe Government ratified this Monday that in 2019 riot gear arrived in the country irregularly from Argentina, for which it affirmed that the crime of illicit arms...
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...
‘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...
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...
