Get vaccinated, the only option Bolivia is going through a third wave that, as doctors had warned, is more virulent than the first. There are two details that make the difference between one and the other: confinement and infections to young people. The first wave caught the country off guard. It was painfully confirmed that…
Month: June 2021
Irresponsible and negligent masismo – Masismo irresponsable y negligente
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The agenda of the people and the government Bolivia is experiencing the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last hours, records of deaths and infections have been broken, in the midst of an exasperating shortage of oxygen, collapse of Intensive Care Units (ICU) and speculation of medicines. Therefore, people’s agenda is…
Iván Lima: muddies Bolivian justice – enloda la justicia boliviana
Editorial, El Deber: The sad role of the Minister of Justice The act of interpellation to the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima Magne, in the Legislative Assembly was anything but that, a grotesque spectacle more typical of the worst face of politics, the one that exhibits cynicism, manipulation and lies, than of a respectable state…
Central Bolivia desperate for medical oxygen amid third Covid wave
Online News Editor, La Prensa Latina: Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jun 1 (EFE).- Scenes of despair, concern and tears are seen at the doors of hospitals in the central Bolivian region of Cochabamba, hit hard by a Covid-19 third wave and where medical oxygen is scarce and health services are overwhelmed. One of the places in a…
Deficiencies that kill during pandemic – Carencias que matan en pandemia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: In the third wave of Covid-19, Bolivia is setting record figures for the entire pandemic in terms of deaths and positive cases per day. For example, during the previous week more than 3,000 cases were registered daily, compared to the maximum of 2,886 reported in the second wave. In terms of deaths,…
Corruption! – ¡Corrupción!
Marcelo Ostria, Los Tiempos: The frequency of acts of corruption by public officials in Bolivia no longer surprise anyone. These were -and are- tolerated by the Government and the administration of justice, and practiced by State officials. Since last week, the imprisonment in the United States of the former Minister of Government, Arturo Murillo, by…
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