Editorial, El Diario: The private sector matters a lot for development It is time to agree that the extremes of the left or right have ceased to be important in the economy, that the peoples downplay them because they are retrograde positions that argued that private capital is contrary, alien, strange and counterproductive for development…
Month: February 2021
Desconcierto – Bewilderment
Luis Fernando Garcia, El Diario: Government without economic reactivation plan Despite the measures announced by the authorities of the economic sector, to begin the recovery of the national economy, the economist and professor, Luis Fernando García, assures that the Government does not have a reactivation plan, but rather repeats the same recipe of the last…
Narcisista – Narcissistic
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: “Once upon a man stuck to a nose” “Once upon a man with a glued nose, once upon a superlative nose, once upon an executioner and writer nose, once upon a very bearded swordfish. Once upon a time there was an ill-faced sundial, once upon a thoughtful Altar, there was an…
Ancient Amazonian Farmers Fortified Valuable Fertile Land
Heritage Daily: Ancient Amazonian communities fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it from conflict, excavations show. Farmers in Bolivia constructed wooden defences around previously nutrient-poor tropical soils they had enriched over generations to keep them safe during times of social unrest. These long-term soil management strategies allowed Amazonians to grow…
Coacción – Coercion
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Arce’s coercion of voters President Luis Arce travels the country coercing voters to vote for MAS candidates on the grounds that this will allow him to better coordinate the works and even the distribution of vaccines. Former President Evo Morales had us used to electoral speeches of this type, but Arce was…
Bodies again pile up in Bolivia as Latin America endures a long, deadly coronavirus wave.
The New York Times: In Bolivia, bodies are piling up at homes and on the streets again, echoing the horrific images of last summer, when a deadly surge in coronavirus infections overwhelmed the country’s fragile medical system. The Bolivian police say that in January they recovered 170 bodies of people thought to have died from Covid-19,…
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