MBeditor, Macau Business: [To watch the video, click the photo] Master embroiderer Felix Quisbert Gutierrez, an artisan who creates folkloric dance costumes, laments the economic and cultural effects of the shuttering of his 50-year-old business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and worries what the cancelling of celebrations and parties will mean long-term for…
Month: January 2021
La visión del agricultor – Farmer’s vision
Rolando Morales, Página Siete: Changes in traditional agriculture The main crops of traditional agriculture continue to show low yields, although research centers report having found the appropriate technologies to increase them, even to levels higher than those of neighboring countries. Some recent events shed light on the understanding of this paradox, at the same time…
Gobierno adormecido – Sleepy government
Página Siete: Dangerous lines The government does not seem to have realized the risk involved in people standing in endless lines in the streets, day and night, to renew their driver’s license or identity card. You don’t have to be a scientist to realize that these lines may be spreading the coronavirus through crowding and…
Real growth – 2021 – Crecimiento real
Pagina siete: The WB foresees growth of 3.9% for Bolivia The World Bank (WB) foresees that in 2021 Bolivia will reach a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.9%, a figure lower than that estimated by the Government in the General State Budget (PGE), of 4.8% . [Opinion of Bolivian Thoughts: The populist,…
Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing, and so is the water it supplies
Monica Machicao, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away. Scientists from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), who monitor the Tuni…
Bolivian banana is better!
Laura Manzaneda, Los Tiempos: Argentina prefers Bolivian bananas for their sweetness and sales grow despite Covid Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis in 2020, the export of bananas was 130 thousand tons, a volume higher than the 100 thousand tons exported in 2019, reported the representative of the producers, Agustín Conde. The increase…
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