Roberto Laserna is an economist at CERES, a private research center in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and President of Fundacion Milenio, a think tank in La Paz.
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Roberto Laserna
Commentaries by Roberto Laserna
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Earth to Evo Morales
LA PAZ – “Mother Earth is not for sale,” the Bolivian representative told last year’s United Nations climate-change conference in Doha. But …
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Endgame for Evo?
LA PAZ – The populist government of Bolivian President Evo Morales seems to be heading for political failure. Faced with 11% annual price gr…
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Evo Morales and the Populist Paradox
LA PAZ – Evo Morales succeeded in amending the Bolivia’s constitution and being re-elected President. And, backed by his parliamentary major…
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The March of the Caudillos
LA PAZ -- The re-election for unlimited periods that Presidents Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales have sought in Venezuela and Bolivia, re…
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Twenty-First Century Populism
In Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador a new left is said to being born, which their presidents call “twenty-first century socialism.” But, desp…
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Bolivia’s Same Old Revolution
Bolivia is at a defining moment in its history. It recently found a new source of wealth, natural gas, but may become yet another victim of …
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Bolivia's Populist Temptation
In April 2002, violent demonstrations known as the "water war" in Bolivia forced President Hugo Bánzer to cancel the contract with the only …
