That was the numerical identification that the prison administration of the Isla de Pinos prison hung on Pedro Luis Boitel, who on May 25 celebrates 50 years since he died on a hunger strike. Giving political prisoners a number was a form of dehumanization, of mediocrity, but they did not achieve their goal, because the…
What do Fidel Castro, Klaus Altmann Barbie, Gabriel García Márquez and Roberto Suarez Gómez have in common? Apparently nothing. Well, the first was the Cuban dictator, the second a Nazi war criminal, the third won the Nobel Prize for literature, and the fourth was a Bolivian drug trafficker. But in the 1980s, these four men…
At the end of April, the BBC published an article about the “absence” of inflation in Bolivia. As a result of that note, thousands of journalists around South America once again praised the “successful” economic model implemented by Evo Morales and his entourage of socialists. However, the BBC is completely wrong. Because in Bolivia there…
The war in Ukraine, in the warmongering strategy of the current Biden Administration, has as its primary objective not only the protection of the Ukrainian state, but above all the attrition and destruction of Russia as we know it today. But no less important is the parallel strategy of trying to incinerate any future European…
In all neighborhoods there are individuals who believe they are braver than the rest of their neighbors and to prove it, they are constantly in a campaign of intimidation, which, although it is difficult to admit, tends to bear fruit, a situation that frequently occurs in any corner of the world. The regimes of force…
On December 26, 1982, at his San Vicente hacienda, located in the department of Beni, Don Roberto Suarez Gómez (nicknamed the King of Cocaine) celebrated the birthday of his eldest son, Roby (recently released from jail in USA). For the occasion the family hired foreign chefs. The musical group was in charge of the best…
Last week I published an article about the impending default of the Bolivian economy. Several readers understood the dramatic situation in the country. However, others refuse, refused, and will refuse to see reality. In this group are those who insulted me – anyone is brave behind a keyboard – and also those who, politely, affirmed:…
The emigration of innumerable people in different countries of the world is an almost normal process and responds to numerous factors, but that governments, such as that of Cuba, use their citizens as weapons to achieve their only objective, to maintain power, is an aberration that should be condemned. Regimes such as those of Iran,…
Let’s take a trip back in time to the year 2013. At that time, Bolivia’s 6.5% GDP growth was the most talked about news in the world. The main economic magazines began to speak of the Bolivian economic “miracle.” Luis Arce Catacora and Evo Morales became a kind of rock stars for the media and…
On the morning of Sunday, March 26, several police units, with the presence of Eduardo del Castillo (Minister of the Government of Bolivia), intervened the La Cruceña aerodrome (formerly called Mundaka), located in the department of Santa Cruz. 38 people were arrested in the operation. In addition, 66 planes were hijacked. On the night of…
