Luis Escobar, Página Siete: Jesus children with a doctor’s suit and chinstrap to ask for 0 infections Craftswomen make biosecurity accessories to dress the images. Some lost family members to the pandemic or caught the virus. “The Covid-19 pandemic took our family, brothers and friends. I lost my son and it hurts a lot, “said…
Category: Cochabamba
Cacao – Bolivia – Cocoa
Webinar Dec/11/2020 – El Diario: World market demands Bolivian Amazonian cocoa Bolivian cocoa is one of the agricultural products with the highest current demand in the national and international market, and its industrialization generates significant revenues worldwide of around 80 billion dollars annually. Bolivia is one of the few countries in the world that has…
Repartijas – Distributions
Claudia Eid, Los Tiempos: Of expenses and “absurd” distributions The one that was the Ministry of Cultures never worked quite well and that is because it is not understood what is the profile of who should lead that portfolio or, in reality, because the Government of the day is not really interested in culture. It…
Retratan a los héroes que dieron su vida en la lucha contra la Covid – They portray the heroes who gave their lives in the fight against Covid
Anahí Cazas, Página Siete: In one of the paintings they portrayed the face of Dr. Juvenal Butrón, who died from the virus. While thousands of citizens stayed at home to avoid contagion of Covid-19, doctors, nurses, health workers, police and military left their homes to fight on the front line against the virus that paralyzed…
Bolivia struggles to contain wildfires, declares natural disaster
TRT World: The wildfires have affected more than 600 families but no fatalities have been reported so far. Bolivia has declared a state of disaster after wildfires ravaged forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country. In 2019, wildfires destroyed more than 6 million hectares in the Bolivian Amazon. So far this…
Desprecio y brutalidad contra los indígenas – Contempt and brutality against indigenous people
Gabriela Canedo, El Día: Chaparina in memory “We are going to blow them up.” It was the threat of the Secretary General of the Confederation of Intercultural Colonizers of Bolivia against the indigenous people of the lowlands who were leading the Eighth March in defense of their territory and against the highway that the TIPNIS…
