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…
Year: 2020
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…
Infants’ lives ‘hang by a thread’ as Bolivia’s political crisis, coronavirus hit hospitals
By Associated Press for Los Angeles Times: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hooked up to ventilators, 11 prematurely born infants struggled for survival Thursday in the intensive care ward of a Bolivian maternity hospital. The infants’ supply of oxygen was in peril, doctors said, because of nationwide blockades by supporters of the party of former President Evo Morales…
False debate – Falso debate
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: Elections: the false debate A purely numerical analysis shows that the dispute around 42 days between elections on September 6, or October 18, is nothing more than a false debate. An evaluation of current trends suggests that for MAS to maintain September 6, 42 days ahead of schedule, it will not…
Unhinged – MAS – Desquiciado
Violent masistas who only want to keep their acronym, after their candidate’s mistake of speaking about polls, prohibited in their own electoral law … Masistas violentos que solo quieren mantener su sigla, despuéss del error de su candidato de hablar de encuestas, prohibido en su propia ley electoral … Violent events: vandalism, blockades in pandemic,…
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