Explica.co: Bolivia once again beat its daily record of COVID-19 infections, which is close to 200,000 accumulated positive cases since March 2020. The latest data from the Ministry of Health show 2,655 new infections, which raises 193,745 confirmed cases with a curve that shows a marked rise in positives for days in this country, of about eleven and a…
Category: Social Unrest
Desempleo – Unemployment
Editorial, El Diario: Growing unemployment Numerous economic aspects inherited by the government of President Luis Arce Catacora have determined that unemployment in the country, already existing for years, continues to grow even more and that for new causes it acquires a level that is still worrying and even alarming. This problem has already been detected…
¿Ocultando su incapacidad? – Hiding their helplessness?
Página Siete: An almost inaccessible government It was never an open or transparent government; in fact, until now, President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca have not held a press conference to answer questions from journalists. But, day that passes, the situation worsens because its officials adopt the same ostrich strategy and leave the…
Absurdos masistas – Gov’s absurdities
Pagina Siete: Pay for not working The Inti Raymi company has denounced that, in record time, the justice system has accepted that 21 of its former employees be immediately reinstated to their functions. The problem is that they have no functions to fulfill. The Inti Raymi gold deposits were depleted in 2015 and the company’s…
Arce: Engaña – Misleads
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,…
Lake Poopó: why Bolivia’s second largest lake disappeared – and how to bring it back
The Conversation: A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch almost 70km end to end and cover an area of 3,000 sq km – the size of a small country…
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