Allison Cuellar, El Dia: The ABC reports 24 section cuts nationwide The highway that connects the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba suffered a sewer collapse at dawn on Thursday at kilometer 103 of the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway (Montero-Yapacaní section). Traffic interruptions in Santa CruzThe highway that connects the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian doctors demand lockdown as COVID surge threatens health service ‘collapse’
Monica Machicao, WTVB: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian doctors are demanding a nationwide lockdown and threatening to stop taking in new patients as a surge in COVID-19 cases, which they say is killing an average of one medic per day, strains hospitals to breaking point. New daily coronavirus infections in the Andean country, which received…
Falsedad – Deceit
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The presidential speech When we listen to the arguments put forward by the masistas, we immediately perceive that the masista discourse moves in a closed circle; everything begins and ends in the indigenous-native-peasant sphere. From this interpretative horizon, the “people” is made up of all those who have an ethnic-original identification,…
Couple rescues bees threatened by deforestation in Bolivia
Reuters, Daily Sabah: A couple in Bolivia is moving honey bees to a sanctuary they created to address a staggering decline in the insects’ colonies due to deforestation and coca farming, which has encroached on their habitat. For 10 years, zootechnical engineering vet Eric Paredes and his wife Cinthya Callisaya Yujra have scoured the humid,…
Arce: manipulador – manipulative
Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Dismantle institutions or blue massacre President Luis Arce Catacora ordered public officials “to continue with the dismantling of the neoliberal model.” The words were pronounced on the same day that the last park rangers and qualified workers who take care of the main natural reserves in Bolivia were dismissed en masse…
Perniciosa demagogia – Pernicious demagogy
Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: Democracy in decline I imagine the discomfort – even outrage – that a title like this can cause among true Democrats. Worse if it comes from a subject like me who cannot display such ostentatious democratic credentials as those of those who have taken over the term. But it does not…
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