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…
Category: Politics
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,…
Postergar elecciones – Postpone elections
Jesus R. Alanoca, El Deber: Former minister proposes to postpone subnational elections for 60 days due to the outbreak of Covid-19 Ortiz recently walked away from the Democrats. He considers that authorities carry out electoral calculations that put the health of the population at risk The former minister and former candidate for the Presidency, Óscar…
Natural Gas – Agriculture
Editorial, El Deber: Gas and agri, time to think outside the box There is a phrase widely used in recent times: think outside the box, which means leaving the traditional schemes to innovate and seek new solutions to problems. This is what the national government has to do at this time, when it is necessary…
2020, año absurdo, 2021, año preocupante – Absurd 2020, worrisome 2021
Editorial, El Diario: Surely the history of Bolivia will consider the past political year as the most negative and absurd of its existence due to the appalling management of political activities and the inefficiency of its eventual administrators. Therefore, it is not possible to stop remembering what happened during that stage, in such a way…
Polarizada – Bolivia – Polarized
Roberto Laserna, El Dia: Polarization and political conflict After having lived two very intense years in the country, with two national elections, violent conflicts, two changes of government and a transition heavily hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, we arrived at the end of 2020 with a collective sense of concern and fear. The country has…
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