Editorial, El Deber: What six months of pandemic leave in Bolivia Six months after the arrival of the coronavirus in Bolivia, it is time to take stock that allows us to become aware of the footprint that this pandemic has left among Bolivians. Such a hard blow reveals the weaknesses not only of the health…
Category: Social Unrest
Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Diario: In study derogation of standards 19 active forest fires in Santa Cruz Of the fires registered until yesterday [9/13/2020], 2 are in Concepción, 8 in San Ignacio, 4 in San Matías, 1 in San Rafael, 1 in Cabezas, 1 in Vallegrande and 1 in San Antonio de Lomerío, the last being reported in…
The legacy of Evo Morales
By Judah Waxelbaum, The Jerusalem Post: Next month, Bolivians will head to the polls to elect a new government. These elections, postponed twice out of fear for voters’ well-being during a global pandemic, carry historical weight for Bolivia’s future. Bolivia ousted its longest-serving president, Evo Morales, in November 2019. Morales’s career is one of socialist authoritarianism, or a champion…
Extorsión – El Alto – Extortion
Editorial, El Deber: A kidnapped mayor The mayor of El Alto, Soledad Chapetón, was kidnapped by residents of the 14th district of that city, and was held in the Virgen de Urkupiña temple from 4:00 p.m. on Saturday until late at night as a measure of pressure to force her to sign an agreement to…
Ambición destructiva – Destructive ambition
Editorial, El Diario: Ambitious seek to destroy the country All the extreme actions that the people have endured a few weeks ago have come to deeply distress and worry them. Those who are determined to destroy the country seem that they will never measure the consequences of their actions that, almost certainly, could lead to…
Legado pésimo – evo – Dreadful legacy
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: A harmful inheritance The Bartolinas have asked the cocalero Morales not to get involved in the electoral campaign, the peasant leader of Oruro Johnny Rocha, (of the MAS), asks that Morales be expelled from the party, the president of deputies, Sergio Choque, says that the cocalero would have to defend himself…
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