Bloqueos – Blockades

Rafael Archondo, Pagina Siete: Failed guide to unblock When the civic caravan headed towards Tiquipaya, the blockades had already vanished. They had no choice but to return to the headquarters of their functions. The stone and log carpets were left there, and without people, they became mere portable obstacles to the movement of motorized vehicles….

Nueva política económica -New economic policy

Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: The new economic policy Siglo 21 says that the new economic policy for the country must be made starting from scratch, because to the disaster left by the MAS we must add the freeze imposed by the Chinese virus. The work of destruction that the party of cocalero Morales did would…

The Bolivia that is not grasped – La Bolivia que no se entiende

Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: The Bolivia that is not grasped While Oscar Urenda and Roberto Torres, as well as many other heroic doctors and nurses, fell trying to save suffering victims of the Chinese plague, other characters, although it seems fanciful, called people to take to the streets to demonstrate against the Government….

Mobile Crematory Aims to Help Bolivia Deal with Surge in COVID Deaths

VOA News: A group of entrepreneurs believe their mobile crematorium is the solution to Bolivia’s surge in coronavirus deaths.  Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, who is part of the group said, there are instances when dozens of bodies piled up in the street in Bolivia because families do not have the resources or aren’t finding places to…

Dear Bernie, dear Harvard boys

Juan Antonio Morales writes in Pagina Siete: It’s hard to get mad at Senator Bernie Sanders, with his somewhat eccentric uncle figure. Unfortunately, they have abused his nobility, as the Chapulín Colorado would say, by having him sign a letter, along with some of his co-religionists, referring to a country he does not know. Crazy…

Bolivia’s lithium bonanza

BBC reports, listen by clicking the photo: The Salar de Uyuni is a stunning pristine salt flat high in the Andes – it is also the world’s biggest lithium deposit, worth many billions of dollars. Ed Butler asks whether this as yet untapped resource will prove a blessing or a curse for the people of…