I thought I’d take a moment to highlight an interesting post by a Bolivian blogger (I’m going to make a more concerted effort to do that, at least on a weekly basis). La Vero Vero noted an editorial by José Luís Exeni (a prolific Bolivian social scientist). La Vero Vero is the penname for the author of the blog Kamchatka; Exeni has his own blog, FadoCracia.
But the brief editorial, titled “Una gran omisión” [a great omission], is quite thought-provoking. In it, Exeni wonders why so much of the Constituent Assembly’s attention has been given to issues such as where the capital should be located, what kind of regional autonomy to introduce, etc.—while completely ignoring the issue of the right to information (and especially tolerance & “inter-cultural discourse”) in a democratic society.
The original editorial was posted here in La Prensa.
