Danny Ramos, Reuters: Bolivia surpassed 100,000 coronavirus cases on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Health reported, predicting that the virus would reach its peak there in September. Bolivia’s confirmed coronavirus infections reached 100,344, the ministry said, and there have been 4,058 deaths since the virus first emerged in the country in early March. “Cases are climbing steadily,…
Month: August 2020
Undemocratic – evo/MAS – Antidemocrático
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The MAS, Evo and the mobilizations The country is mired in a pandemic that reaches, especially in the seat of Government and some western cities, its highest peak. And yet, the priority now is the political situation, exacerbated to the maximum because power groups linked to the MAS maintain an incomprehensible roadblock,…
Defeat – MAS – Derrotarle
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: MAS has to be defeated The MAS returned to what it used to be in the hands of García Linera, a terrorist group, since that is what the MAS is doing on the country’s highways; so far the former vice president has not returned what he stole from the UMSS. Morales’s…
Coronavirus Is Fuelling Child Labour in Bolivia
Amy Booth reports for Vice News: More children will work to survive now that the government has paused the education system until 2021, say observers. A decision by Bolivia’s interim government to suspend the academic year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the region’s most impoverished, rural nations promises to drive more children…
Problems – evo/MAS – Problemas
Raul Peñaranda, Pagina Siete: Evo and MAS’s problems The MAS was in power for so long that it doesn’t realize that it has already lost it. But i8t continues with that reflection, after having ruled for almost 14 years. That is why insists on imposing its whims, for example, that the elections be held on…
Bolivian bishops to protesters: Stop using pandemic for political purposes
The Catholic Universe reports: Bolivia’s bishops issued an urgent appeal for protesters to remove roadblocks, which have caused fears of shortages of medical supplies and oxygen in highland regions of the South American country amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The roadblocks — a common form of protest in Bolivia, where mountainous terrain creates choke points for…
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