El Deber reports: Government reports 920 positive cases of H1N1 flu in the country The National Chief of epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, Johnny Rada, reported on Wednesday, July 4, 2012; reported 920 positive cases of H1N1 influenza throughout the country and announced that, for that reason, they expand the spectrum of vaccination to…
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Bolivia status under the 2012 World Drug Report
The 2012 World Drug Report made by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has important information about Bolivia. The impact of drugs and crime on development, public safety, and our political life; should have to force us to sit and reflect what to we want to become in the very near future. Do…
Summary of Bolivian political, economical and human-rights’ events during hectic May 2012
A picture is worth more than words, in this case I decided to use cartoons to summarize a very difficult month for Bolivia. Strikes, protest marches, road and street blockades, trials, corruption, narcotrafficking, crime and violence have clouted our lives. This is from El Diario, June 2, 2012: “hate” “social resentment” and “racism” are being…
Two proud healthy TWIN marchers join TIPNIS protest-walk group in Chaparina, Altamira!!
Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber: Two babies are born where there was repression It rains and the news has spread in the three huts of Altamira: a woman has come with birth pangs and may give birth at anytime. It rains and Carolina Moye is lying on a double bed, the unique space of…
Hectic Bolivian times and humor, May 2012
We have been experiencing blockades, strikes, riots. University students against police; community people in Potosi fighting against each other (Mallku Khota). In sum, a total anarchical chaos. The following cartoons serve to deflate stress and bring humor to our reality: This is from El Diario, May 9, 2012: At a crossroad that signals chaos and…
Bolivia to repeat the failures of Venezuela…
This news is written by Roberto Mendez and appears in El Dia, it reports the reaction of one of the so-recent-opposition-and-former-ally of current government. I believe that its a dangerous political move of MSM if they really want to amend their former mistakes when they were part of current government. We have witnessed Venezuelan failures…
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