VOA News: A group of entrepreneurs believe their mobile crematorium is the solution to Bolivia’s surge in coronavirus deaths. Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, who is part of the group said, there are instances when dozens of bodies piled up in the street in Bolivia because families do not have the resources or aren’t finding places to…
Month: August 2020
The MAS foreign media lobby – El lobby mediático extranjero del MAS
Mauricio Ochoa writes in El Diario: The MAS foreign media lobby The Movement to Socialism (MAS) has launched a smear media campaign against the government of Jeanine Áñez in international media linked to the left, such as Page12 in Argentina, Gap in Uruguay, Telesur in Venezuela, La Jornada in Mexico, and others. The task is…
Dear Bernie, dear Harvard boys
Juan Antonio Morales writes in Pagina Siete: It’s hard to get mad at Senator Bernie Sanders, with his somewhat eccentric uncle figure. Unfortunately, they have abused his nobility, as the Chapulín Colorado would say, by having him sign a letter, along with some of his co-religionists, referring to a country he does not know. Crazy…
Bolivia’s lithium bonanza
BBC reports, listen by clicking the photo: The Salar de Uyuni is a stunning pristine salt flat high in the Andes – it is also the world’s biggest lithium deposit, worth many billions of dollars. Ed Butler asks whether this as yet untapped resource will prove a blessing or a curse for the people of…
‘Scrotum frog’ facing extinction without multinational effort to save it
Jeff Parsons reports for Metro: In a time when it seems like most species are under some form of threat, spare a thought for the scrotum frog of South America. Found in Lake Titicaca on the border between Bolivia and Peru, this slimy, wrinkled little amphibian is on the edge of being wiped out. Covered…
Lawmakers push toxic disinfectant as Covid-19 treatment in Bolivia, against Health Ministry’s warnings
Radina Gigova reports for CNN: (CNN) The US and Brazil aren’t the only countries where political leaders have appeared to contradict the advice of medical experts. In Bolivia, several lawmakers are fighting to recognize a toxic cleaning agent as a Covid-19 therapy, even as health officials warn it could be deadly. In the city of…
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