Press release 20/170: April 17, 2020 The IMF approved Bolivia’s request for emergency financial assistance of about US$327 million under the Rapid Financing Instrument to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This assistance will help Bolivia support urgently required medical spending and relief measures to preserve social protection spending. Additional support from other development partners will also…
Category: Health
1943, La Paz city, a superb video!
A Julien Bryan production: Great socio economic display, and during WWII which was not even mentioned … Loved to see trams as public transportation … like train service, these days, both were discontinued and that is a real shame!
The economy is fixed later – La economía se arregla después
Juan Manuel Arias writes in El Deber: The economy is fixed later In this quarantine, everything has been seen and heard, from sensible statements, other alarmist and apocalyptic and many crazy, selfish and impertinent to the point of calling for the health rebellion calling the population to a collective exhibition of the contagion of the…
Today Gov will define whether or not to extend quarantine – Hoy Gob define si amplía o no cuarentena
El Diario reports: Covid – 19 Government will define on Tuesday whether or not to extend quarantine The government will define on Tuesday whether or not the total quarantine in force in the country since March 22 is extended and lasts until April 15, government minister Arturo Murillo reported on Sunday. “It is an issue…
In Bolivia announced the militarization of the largest city
Kxan 36 News reports: The largest city of Bolivia, Santa Cruz will be militarized as of April 14, with the purpose of strengthening the fight against the pandemic of new type of coronavirus, said the Minister of industrial development Wilfredo Rojo. “We are at war with an invisible enemy, and since we are at war,…
The Twin Contagions Facing Latin America
By OTTO REICH & ORLANDO GUTIERREZ for National Review: Central and South America must contend not with just coronavirus, but also with the resurgent temptations of socialism and Communism. Latin America is facing the simultaneous onslaught of two potent viruses: one biological, the other ideological. Many Latin-American nations lack efficient health-care systems and preventive measures to fight the former:…
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