Editorial, El Deber: It is estimated that smuggling enters the country around $2.3 billion in merchandise each year: almost 6% of GDP! There are more than 1,500 different types of products that enter illegally from neighboring countries: fruits, vegetables, rice, preserves, meat, beer, clothing (more than 7,000 tons per year), electrical appliances, medicines, computers, toys,…
Category: Social Unrest
Amid Bolivia’s Covid surge, long queues for vaccines in short supply
Online News Editor, La Prensa Latina: La Paz/Cochabamba, Jun 7 (EFE).- Lines, crowds and complaints at the doors of health centers in the main Bolivian cities marked the continuation of mass vaccination on Monday, which is being carried out amid an escalation of third wave Covid-19 infections. The same scenes are playing out in several…
Is this the Bolivia that we want, that we are?! – ¡¿Es esta la Bolivia que queremos, que somos?!
Editorial, El Deber: Irresponsible selfishness, ally of the covid-19 The holding of clandestine parties, where the consumption of alcoholic beverages abounds and there are crowds, is something that a rational mind cannot understand and that can only be explained within the framework of the selfishness of those who are its protagonists. It should be remembered…
Government … wake up! – Gobierno … ¡despierte!
Get vaccinated, the only option Bolivia is going through a third wave that, as doctors had warned, is more virulent than the first. There are two details that make the difference between one and the other: confinement and infections to young people. The first wave caught the country off guard. It was painfully confirmed that…
Irresponsible and negligent masismo – Masismo irresponsable y negligente
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…
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…
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