Editorial, El Diario: Caprice prevents 10% for health Although on the street and among ordinary citizens everyone says yes to 10% of the National Budget for Health, the bill has been postponed by the Legislative Assembly because two thirds of the MAS have been vetoing its consideration since November 2019, when the transitory government forwarded…
Category: Health
COVID-19 impactará el sistema educativo de América Latina durante décadas
Andres Oppenheimer, el Nuevo Herald: Cuando me preguntan si América latina saldrá pronto de su actual crisis económica, suelo responder que el daño económico causado por la pandemia del coronavirus probablemente sera relativamente corto, pero el daño educativo podría durar décadas. A corto plazo, es probable que las economías latinoamericanas comiencen a recuperarse pronto. Las…
Impacto Covid-19
Editorial, El Deber: What six months of pandemic leave in Bolivia Six months after the arrival of the coronavirus in Bolivia, it is time to take stock that allows us to become aware of the footprint that this pandemic has left among Bolivians. Such a hard blow reveals the weaknesses not only of the health…
Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Diario: In study derogation of standards 19 active forest fires in Santa Cruz Of the fires registered until yesterday [9/13/2020], 2 are in Concepción, 8 in San Ignacio, 4 in San Matías, 1 in San Rafael, 1 in Cabezas, 1 in Vallegrande and 1 in San Antonio de Lomerío, the last being reported in…
Incertidumbre – Uncertainty
Editorial, El Deber: The uncertain future of Bolivians Five months and six days have passed since the quarantine was ordered, since the economy stopped and since life changed for Bolivians. Since then there have been many bad news that we have had to face, all related to poverty, lack of employment, poor health, with nuances…
As Politicians Clashed, Bolivia’s Pandemic Death Rate Soared
Bolivia was mired in political turmoil when the pandemic hit. The response was chaotic. And the surge in deaths that followed was among the worst in the world, according to an analysis by The New York Times. By María Silvia Trigo, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Allison McCann Leer en español TARIJA, Bolivia — So many people were dying that the…
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