Marcelo Ostria writes in El Deber: A wantonness Legislative Assembly One of the first measures of the government of President Jeanine Añez was to respect national institutions; among them, the administration of justice and the continuity and extension of the term of the parliamentarians elected in previous elections. This attitude, aimed at the continuity of…
Month: July 2020
Bolivia police recover 420 dead in possible COVID-19 cases
Reports Associated Press for The Record: LA PAZ, Bolivia – A special police unit collected 420 bodies over the preceding five days in two Bolivian cities, and 80% to 90% of the deceased were thought to have succumbed to COVID-19, authorities said Tuesday. Col. Ivan Rojas, director of the special crime-fighting force, said his officers…
The country is not for elections – El país no está para elecciones
Editorial from El Deber: The country is not for elections Every night that the official report is released, Bolivia reaches a new peak of cases of Covid-19 infection and in those conditions if someone believes that on September 6 citizens will go to the polls to elect the new president for the next five years,…
Bolivia Ombudsman 101
Max Murillo writes in Pagina Siete: Ombudsman: diagnosis of prepotency Another institution that was totally destroyed by Evo Morales was the Ombudsman’s Office. Evo Morales imposed, as in various institutions, an ignorant and folkloric character like David Tezanos Pinto, simply because he was “evista”, as said character openly manifested it. His actions let a lot…
In This Bolivian City, Hard-Hit by the Pandemic, a Fake—and Toxic—Coronavirus Cure Proves Popular
Diego Cartagena and Paola Flores report for Time: (COCHABAMBA, Bolivia) — Long lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleaching agent that has been falsely touted as a cure for COVID-19 and a myriad of…
Postpone elections – Posponer las elecciones
ABI reports via Hoybolivia.com: Civics against the September 6 elections call a national meeting to take action La Paz, Jul 17 (ABI). – The civic committees called a national meeting, for July 21, to prevent the general elections from taking place on September 6, a date they fear, may end in a massive spread of…
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