The New York Times: In Bolivia, bodies are piling up at homes and on the streets again, echoing the horrific images of last summer, when a deadly surge in coronavirus infections overwhelmed the country’s fragile medical system. The Bolivian police say that in January they recovered 170 bodies of people thought to have died from Covid-19,…
Category: Health
Chantaje y votos – Blackmail and votes
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Economic analysis President Luis Arce has decided to cross all barriers of ethics and now not only is he campaigning for the candidates of his party, but he has added a new element: blackmail. He carries around the warning that if voters prefer to vote for candidates from parties other than…
How an Indigenous People in Bolivia’s Amazon Survived COVID-19
Pulitzer Center: When the coronavirus arrived in the spring, Yuqui fisherman Salomon Quispe was frightened. His wife had tuberculosis a few years before and was still in poor health. At 52 years old, Salomon Quispe himself was no longer as young as he once was, and he, too, felt at risk. Quispe also worried that…
El MAS asquea – The MAS disgusts
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Political use of vaccines The government has deployed an aggressive image campaign with the arrival of 20,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which will serve to immunize 10,000 health workers in the country, which represents just 5% of the sector, which is made up of approximately 200,000 health workforce. The…
Salud en peligro – Health in peril
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Anti-constitutional law The constitutionality of the laws seems to be outside the concerns of the Executive and the Legislature. This is evidenced in some of the provisions of the draft Sanitary Emergency Law, presented by the Government to the Assembly on Monday, and approved on Friday by the MAS bench in the…
Excusas para traer cubanos – Excuse to hire cubans
Opinión Bolivian Thoughts: El MAS, bajo el gobierno del caudillo cocalero, había chocado antes con los profesionales de la salud, de hecho, las enfermeras y médicos de Bolivia tomaron las calles para exigir que se destinaran más fondos a la salud, 14 años de bonanza se desperdiciaron para satisfacer los deseos delirantes del caudillo. El…
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