Editorial, Pagina Siete: The agenda of the people and the government Bolivia is experiencing the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last hours, records of deaths and infections have been broken, in the midst of an exasperating shortage of oxygen, collapse of Intensive Care Units (ICU) and speculation of medicines. Therefore, people’s agenda is…
Category: Politics
Iván Lima: muddies Bolivian justice – enloda la justicia boliviana
Editorial, El Deber: The sad role of the Minister of Justice The act of interpellation to the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima Magne, in the Legislative Assembly was anything but that, a grotesque spectacle more typical of the worst face of politics, the one that exhibits cynicism, manipulation and lies, than of a respectable state…
Central Bolivia desperate for medical oxygen amid third Covid wave
Online News Editor, La Prensa Latina: Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jun 1 (EFE).- Scenes of despair, concern and tears are seen at the doors of hospitals in the central Bolivian region of Cochabamba, hit hard by a Covid-19 third wave and where medical oxygen is scarce and health services are overwhelmed. One of the places in a…
Deficiencies that kill during pandemic – Carencias que matan en pandemia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: In the third wave of Covid-19, Bolivia is setting record figures for the entire pandemic in terms of deaths and positive cases per day. For example, during the previous week more than 3,000 cases were registered daily, compared to the maximum of 2,886 reported in the second wave. In terms of deaths,…
Corruption! – ¡Corrupción!
Marcelo Ostria, Los Tiempos: The frequency of acts of corruption by public officials in Bolivia no longer surprise anyone. These were -and are- tolerated by the Government and the administration of justice, and practiced by State officials. Since last week, the imprisonment in the United States of the former Minister of Government, Arturo Murillo, by…
Irresponsible vaccination? – ¿Vacunación iresponsable?
Alfonso Gumucio, Pagina Siete: Vaccinated with horror “The third wave surpasses two previous peaks,” “UTIs are saturated,” “hospital chaos and funeral crisis,” “the Brazilian strain kills in two or three days,” “not only the elderly are ill, but also young people and children,” “doctors work without receiving salaries,” “Seven regions without oxygen,” “without distancing in…
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