Bolivia’s powerful ex-president Evo Morales is at least the ninth Bolivian leader to be pushed out in a mass uprising. In a country with weak political institutions, such protest movements allow marginalized Bolivians to make their demands heard. But a month after Morales’ ouster, indigenous Bolivians are loudly clamoring for his return. Historian Marten Brienen writes that the country could quickly become ungovernable.
Every country has rules about how companies that are in distress should be managed, short of being put into liquidation and shut down. South Africa has just resorted to its version of these by putting the state-owned airline into voluntary business rescue. Marius Pretorius explains what the process involves and what it might mean for the airline in the long term.
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A supporter of former Bolivian president Evo Morales tells a police officer to respect the nation’s indigenous people, in La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 12, 2019.
AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko
Marten W. Brienen, Oklahoma State University
Evo Morales is at least the ninth Bolivian president to by forced out of office by a mass uprising. But even in exile he remains by far the most popular politician in the country.
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Marius Pretorius, University of Pretoria
Distress is normally identified when a company is no longer profitable, when it's not a going concern anymore, when it has major problems.
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Politics + Society
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Martin Farr, Newcastle University
The US president, Donald Trump, has arrived in the UK for a summit of NATO leaders – but it's awkward timing for the British prime minister, Boris Johnson.
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Megan Dee, University of Stirling
NATO had its 70th birthday party in London at an awkward moment.
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Science + Technology
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Christoffer Heckman, University of Colorado Boulder
Modified commercial drones are getting more powerful and can easily be turned into weapons. A researcher argues for ways to prevent their development.
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Sara James, La Trobe University; Sarah Midford, La Trobe University
The humanities can supply wisdom to guide our galloping technological progress.
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Arts + Culture
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Aaron French, University of California, Davis
Real-life adherents to the Mandela Effect veer into conspiratorial thinking. But they do hit on an important truth: Our understanding of history is malleable.
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Megan K. Maas, Michigan State University
Mattel created a new line of dolls because of research suggesting kids don't want toys 'dictated by gender norms' – but supplanting those norms will take a lot more than that.
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