Bnamericas report: Bolivia’s hydrocarbons ministry has outlined a roadmap to navigate the current oil pricing environment impacted by depressed energy demand brought on by the global health crisis. “For our country, the immediate effect of what happens in the world is null…however, our country always had the dilemma of generating a lot of income from the sale…
Category: Politics
Bonds, an important palliative – Bonos, un paliativo importante
Editorial from Pagina Siete: Bonds, an important palliative President Jeanine Añez did what was expected: she extended by two weeks the quarantine to prevent the movement of people and, with it, the spread of COVID-19. The logic of the decision is that the country has not yet reached its peak of infection and that, having…
A biased IACHR – Una CIDH sesgada
Alfonso Gumucio writes in Pagina Siete: The MAS-IACHR dumbbell I am tempted to include this irony as an anecdote in Ripley’s book because “although you do not believe it”, such a perverse dumbbell has never been seen before between the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that depends on the OAS, and a party politician…
MAS groups attack police in the Chapare – Grupos del MAS agreden a policías en el Chapare
Jesus Alanoca reports for El Deber: Government accuses Evo and MAS groups of being behind the attacks on police in the Chapare Minister Murillo anticipates legal actions against cocalero leaders and even municipal authorities. The Minister of Defense indicates that joint operations will be carried out with the Armed Forces They reject the humiliation to…
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…
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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