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Citizen Security: Taxi App Registers Taxi Drivers and Promises More Security
MABB © If there is one thing that affects Bolivians in their every day life and foreigners who visit the country is the sense of insecurity felt on the streets, especially at night. While Bolivia...
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Elections 2014: The Candidates are Set and Official Campaigning can Begin
MABB ©This week was the deadline for the citizen groups, which will be disputing the general elections in October 2014, to present their official candidates lists. With the submission of these lists...
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Elections 2014: The First Potential Problems Surface
MABB ©The five political alliances taking part in the Bolivian general elections in October 2014 have officially submitted their list of candidates for the legislative to the electoral court. For more...
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Government Control of Citizens?
MABB © The Bolivian government has been implementing what it has called a program for controlling, and therefore reducing, gasoline and natural gas smuggling activities. The name of such program is...
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Elections 2014: Political Persecution?
MABB ©Once again, coincidence or not, legal processes against opposition candidates are springing up. I think the question is relevant. Is there a concerted effort withing the government to take...
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Elections 2014: Government Programs
MABB ©The Bolivian website Gobernabilidad (Governability) has just published a comprehensive text in PDF format where they compare all party programs running for election on October 2014. For those...
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The Problem With the Bolivian Opposition
MABB © It is becoming increasingly obvious the coming general elections in October will present very little challenge to the Morales government. That is because, on the one side, the opposition seems...
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Manipulation of Elections or Mere Coincidence?
MABB ©This is how Evo Morales COULD be manipulating elections. The first sentence has an emphasis on could because I am not sure whether what I am going to describe is an attempt by the Morales...
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Elections 2014: Where is the Political Campaign?
MABB ©For those who have been following this blog for some time, you know I have followed closely (more or less) every Bolivian electoral process since 2003. For those who want proof, please check the...
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Elections 2014: This is How Bolivians Will Vote
MABB ©If you have been following these posts on the October 2014 Bolivian general elections, you probably already know Bolivia has a proportional representation (MMP) and multi-party system, and as...
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The Bolivian Economic Model
MABB ©It has been eight years in the making, but Bolivia has developed an economic model which the Morales government calls: The new economic, social, communal and productive model of development. It...
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Elections 2014: Party Programs and Word Clouds
MABB ©It is October second and we are 10 days away from Bolivian elections. In a prior post I described MAS's political program to bring a bit more understanding on what they are proposing this time...
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On Evo's Process of Change
MABB ©Here is an article I wrote on the ambivalence of Evo's process of change.Short post, but sweet!Mabblog
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Elections 2014: On Preferences, Voting Intentions and Polls
MABB ©As fun exercise I have been collecting (and updating) prediction polls in the Bolivian electoral process. Though everyone is pretty much sure Evo Morales will win the elections, I would like to...
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Elections 2014: Better Late Than Never - On Transparency
MABB ©I guess better late than never, as the saying goes. Several partners, among them some universities, some ngos, some research institutes and other organizations have gathered together to present...
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Elections 2014: Results
MABB ©Update: For up to date results, as the counting progresses, follow this link which takes you to the Bolivian electoral office's (TSE) web site. The results are in Spanish.There you can see the...
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Elections 2014: Problems with the Results
MABB ©The votes are in and now the counting has began. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has been busy counting the votes, trying to get the ballot boxes to its counting centers and also trying to...
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Elections 2014: Official Results
MABB ©Source: http://www.oep.org.bo/Computo2014/Source: Los TiemposThese are the official results for the 2014 Bolivian general elections reported by the electoral entity on its website (click here for...
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The Issue Between Bolivia and Chile
MABB ©This is a collection of links on the dispute between Bolivia and Chile about sea access.The official Chilean video laying out their argument. This is a documentary produced by DIREMAR, the...
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Elections 2014: Distribution of Power in National Assembly
MABB ©Evo Morales and his party MAS were the winners of last year's Bolivian general elections, that much was clear shortly after election day. However, the question on how much power did the MAS...
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