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: Politics
Empleos – Jobs
Editorial, El Diario: Sources of employment for the working class The offer to create new sources of employment and employ numerous unemployed youth and women who join the country’s productive apparatus every year was one of the main points of the government programs of the political parties that participated in the national elections of the…
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…
San Matias: en peligro – in peril
Editorial, El Deber: Mining operation in protected area Since the arrival of President Luis Arce Catacora, the Bolivian system of protected areas and forests has been suffering severe blows, due to the deinstitutionalization of the positions of the entities that have under their control this important natural wealth of the country. To this is added…
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…
Intervención negativa – Negative intervention
Fides: Anapo rejects government warning to suspend soy exports The Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (Anapo), through its President, Fidel Flores, expressed this Friday (1/29/2021) his rejection of the warning made by the Ministry of Productive Development and Plural Economy to suspend exports of soybeans if the oilseed industries do not supply flour in…
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