The Conversation: A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch almost 70km end to end and cover an area of 3,000 sq km – the size of a small country…
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Emprendedor – Entrepreneur
Erika Gottlieb, Los Tiempos: Businessman, nerves of steel A medal for every businessperson / entrepreneur who: –Lines up at 10 different institutions to open his/her business. -Pays taxes on time, but when he makes a mistake in the declaration (finger mistake) he starts a bigger odyssey than Homer’s. -To put his little sign, has to…
Inercia – Arce – Inertia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The measures that do not arrive As much as the virus is increasingly familiar and close to us, we will never finish knowing it. Maybe we will learn to fight it and hope that sooner or later the vaccine can neutralize it, but while humanity desperately advances in that sense, the virus,…
El dilema – The dilemma
Rafael Sosa, El Dia: Health and economy How to find the balance? Providing information on the prevention of Covid-19 and testing campaigns can become much more effective measures than rigid quarantines in Bolivia, where there is talk of emphasizing economic reactivation, said Pablo Mendieta, an economist at the Bolivian Center for Economic Studies of the…
Gobierno inactivo – Dormant government
Editorial, Página Siete: Inaction against the coronavirus Scientists have been warning for months that there would be a second wave of coronavirus infections. This was tragically demonstrated first in Europe, where the second wave has been devastating. Since the new coronavirus pandemic began, 568,000 people have died in Europe. Most of these deaths have taken…
MBtv: Bolivia festival cancellation hits artisans’ livelihood
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…
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