A multisectoral effort aims to modify regulations and public policies to break the gaps in access to financing and knowledge that exist between men and women in Bolivia. Journalist: Walter Vasquez Of every 10 micro, small and medium-sized companies in the country, seven are led by women, according to a new study by UN Women…
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Drug trafficking: owner of Bolivia? – Narcotráfico: ¿dueño de Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…
“The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” – “El sentido del humor boliviano puede ser tan fino como el inglés”
Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
Bolivia yielded to pressure from anti-vaccine groups and suspended the requirement for a health pass in public places
Helen Hernandez, Oicanadian: Health workers walk in the street during a door-to-door drive to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 in La Paz, Bolivia (REUTERS/Manuel Claure) The determination also provides that “Once the declaration of a Health Emergency is over, the presentation of that card will be requested again” as well as the negative PCR test. But nevertheless,…
Charango
Los Tiempos: Bolivia celebrates the National Charango Day This Saturday, January 15, Bolivia celebrates the National Day of the Charango, in commemoration of the birth of the Chuquisaca master Mauro Núñez, in 1902. On July 21, 2006, Law No. 3451 was promulgated, declaring this date as the “National Day of the Charango”. On April 6,…
A weeping coward and also undesirable – Un cobarde llorón y además indeseable
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: A very long whimper Two years and months have passed since coca grower Morales resigned from the presidency and fled the country, but the whining remains intact, from himself and his judicial team paid for revenge. The attorney general continues to order trials against government officials who had to take over…
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