Editorial. El Deber: Anti-austerity of current spending The premise of President Luis Arce Catacora to lead a public administration with austerity, as he repeated in several official acts of his first two months, very soon became a dead letter when the data of the General State Budget (PGE) for the year 2021 became known. There,…
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Emprendedor – Entrepreneur
Erika Gottlieb, Los Tiempos: Businessman, nerves of steel A medal for every businessperson / entrepreneur who: –Lines up at 10 different institutions to open his/her business. -Pays taxes on time, but when he makes a mistake in the declaration (finger mistake) he starts a bigger odyssey than Homer’s. -To put his little sign, has to…
Inercia – Arce – Inertia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The measures that do not arrive As much as the virus is increasingly familiar and close to us, we will never finish knowing it. Maybe we will learn to fight it and hope that sooner or later the vaccine can neutralize it, but while humanity desperately advances in that sense, the virus,…
El dilema – The dilemma
Rafael Sosa, El Dia: Health and economy How to find the balance? Providing information on the prevention of Covid-19 and testing campaigns can become much more effective measures than rigid quarantines in Bolivia, where there is talk of emphasizing economic reactivation, said Pablo Mendieta, an economist at the Bolivian Center for Economic Studies of the…
Gobierno adormecido – Sleepy government
Página Siete: Dangerous lines The government does not seem to have realized the risk involved in people standing in endless lines in the streets, day and night, to renew their driver’s license or identity card. You don’t have to be a scientist to realize that these lines may be spreading the coronavirus through crowding and…
Real growth – 2021 – Crecimiento real
Pagina siete: The WB foresees growth of 3.9% for Bolivia The World Bank (WB) foresees that in 2021 Bolivia will reach a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.9%, a figure lower than that estimated by the Government in the General State Budget (PGE), of 4.8% . [Opinion of Bolivian Thoughts: The populist,…
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