Editorial, El Diario: The country is before political interests and conveniences We are a few days away from the electoral process on October 18; the people, as always, hope that partisan politics, and especially the candidates, will show that they can be aware of the country and that their responsibility forces them to maintain serenity…
Month: October 2020
Vulneraciones – Infringements
El Diario: With the MAS government Longaric: Bolivia endured 14 years of infringements The chancellor exposed before the European Parliament a chain of violations that were committed by the government of Evo Morales during the years he remained in power, before citizen movements achieved his resignation after discovering the electoral fraud in the October elections…
Bolivian women skateboard in Aymara garb to showcase culture
The Mainichi: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The traditional bowler hats, bright blouses and long, plaited “pollera” skirts of the young women contrast with the skateboards under their feet as they swoop back and forth on the skate ramp in Bolivia’s largest city. The girls of the collective “ImillaSkate,” a mixture of Aymara and English…
Falta de propuestas – Lack of proposals
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: The announced presidential debate will certainly show that the candidates do not have proposals capable of showing that they are aware of the size of the crisis. The country needs to be reinvented, as if the accident and implausible discovery made by Diego Huallpa in 1545 or the discovery of oil…
Caradura – MAS – Rotter
Demetrio Reynolds, El Día: The useful vote versus the hard vote In this stubborn exercise at the polls, there is no great news. It seems that someone has taken us for the horses of the Ferris wheel, so we go round and round without advancing anywhere. Last year at this time we saw the same…
Salud – Health
Editorial, El Diario: Caprice prevents 10% for health Although on the street and among ordinary citizens everyone says yes to 10% of the National Budget for Health, the bill has been postponed by the Legislative Assembly because two thirds of the MAS have been vetoing its consideration since November 2019, when the transitory government forwarded…
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