Bolivia struggles to contain wildfires, declares natural disaster

TRT World: The wildfires have affected more than 600 families but no fatalities have been reported so far. Bolivia has declared a state of disaster after wildfires ravaged forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country. In 2019, wildfires destroyed more than 6 million hectares in the Bolivian Amazon. So far this…

Extorsión – Extortion

Editorial, El Diario: Contributions of public bureaucracy for the MAS? The multiple complaints about the collection of contributions made by public employees in favor of the Movement for Socialism have caused alarm and even outrage, a behavior that would have been observed during the thirteen years and more in which it was with power in…

Primero – Bolivia – First

Editorial, El Diario: The country is before political interests and conveniences We are a few days away from the electoral process on October 18; the people, as always, hope that partisan politics, and especially the candidates, will show that they can be aware of the country and that their responsibility forces them to maintain serenity…

Vulneraciones – Infringements

El Diario: With the MAS government Longaric: Bolivia endured 14 years of infringements The chancellor exposed before the European Parliament a chain of violations that were committed by the government of Evo Morales during the years he remained in power, before citizen movements achieved his resignation after discovering the electoral fraud in the October elections…

Caradura – MAS – Rotter

Demetrio Reynolds, El Día: The useful vote versus the hard vote In this stubborn exercise at the polls, there is no great news. It seems that someone has taken us for the horses of the Ferris wheel, so we go round and round without advancing anywhere. Last year at this time we saw the same…

Salud – Health

Editorial, El Diario: Caprice prevents 10% for health Although on the street and among ordinary citizens everyone says yes to 10% of the National Budget for Health, the bill has been postponed by the Legislative Assembly because two thirds of the MAS have been vetoing its consideration since November 2019, when the transitory government forwarded…