Polluting mercury – Mercurio contaminante

El Dia: Estudio revela que Bolivia importa 200 toneladas de mercurio, 68 van a la minería aurífera Bolivia registra un incremento “exponencial” en la importación de 200 toneladas de mercurio totalmente “legal”, por la baja tasa arancelaria, de las cuales 68 toneladas van a la pequeña minería aurífera, un hecho que sucede a pesar de…

Annoying centralist interference – Molesta interferencia centralista

President Luis Arce clearly despises the legal standing of the Governorates and Municipalities. The picture below of two headlines this Monday, shows he supplants the competences of the elected officials at the departamental and municipal authorities. It could have not be otherwise, the masistas cling to power at all costs, their demagogue and ochlocratic behavior…

Six months of government? – Seis meses de ¿gobierno?

Editorial, Los Tiempos: Today is half a year [5/8/2021] since the Government of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), elected in October 2020, assumed the reins of the State, and as we verified three months ago in this same space, when They were fulfilling the first 100 days of the presidency of Luis Arce, their actions…

Chaotic vaccination in Bolivia – Caótica vacunación en Bolivia

Veronica Ormachea, Pagina Siete: “Get vaccinated those who can,” say the Bolivians. Such is the deficiency of the vaccination system in Bolivia, that the best vaccine is the one that citizens manage to be inoculated with. We have suffered and continue to suffer from the confinement, the security protocols and now there is another stumbling…

Masista ineptitude – Ineptitud masista

Editorial, Pagina Siete: Failed start of vaccination Long lines of elderly people, useless waits, lack of information and, worst of all, lack of vaccines created a scene of chaos during the first days of what must have been the start of mass vaccination. The central government had announced with pomp a vaccination schedule that runs…

Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland

Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…