Ivone Juárez y Pamela Pomacahua, Pagina Siete: Página Siete collected some Bolivian wishes for Christmas. In these times of Covid-19 people want good health, first and foremost. “I want the pandemic to end as quickly as possible, and that the habit of taking care of our health, washing our hands, wearing the mask and taking…
Month: December 2020
errores – masistas – mistakes
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Double or no Christmas bonus Seven out of ten private companies in the country are not in a position to pay the Christmas bonus this year, according to the arguments used by the businessmen of Cochabamba. But the government has decreed that companies that do not pay that extra salary until…
Propósitos para 2021 – Resolutions for 2021
El Diario: Economic analysis We will have to trust that President Luis Arce intends to change his habits of handling state resources now that he can no longer blame his boss for mistakes he makes. According to Mauricio Ríos García, the budget for 2021 can be summarized in more debt, more deficit, more spending and…
Falla gubernamental – Government failure
Josue Hinojosa, Los Tiempos: Production of 6 crops in Santa Cruz increases by 15% Despite the difficulties related to the coronavirus pandemic, the production of soy, corn, wheat, sunflower, sorghum and chia in year 2020 reached a volume of 5,024,000 tons, 15 percent above the volume registered in 2019, reported the vice president of the…
Nadia Cruz: No apta | Not suitable
ANF, Los Tiempos: Carvajal on Cruz’s application to the IACHR: She is not suitable, she has been biased with the MAS The president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Amparo Carvajal, referred to the nomination of the interim ombudsman, Nadia Cruz, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and added…
Se le perdió el respeto – Respect was lost
Raul Peñaranda, Pagina Siete: From the presidential chair to the chair on the head A month ago I would have gambled on the idea that Evo Morales was invincible in his party, the one who supposedly controls all the strings and has the last word. But it seems that he is not. The chair he…
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