Editorial, Pagina Siete: The MAS, Evo and the mobilizations The country is mired in a pandemic that reaches, especially in the seat of Government and some western cities, its highest peak. And yet, the priority now is the political situation, exacerbated to the maximum because power groups linked to the MAS maintain an incomprehensible roadblock,…
Defeat – MAS – Derrotarle
Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: MAS has to be defeated The MAS returned to what it used to be in the hands of García Linera, a terrorist group, since that is what the MAS is doing on the country’s highways; so far the former vice president has not returned what he stole from the UMSS. Morales’s…
Coronavirus Is Fuelling Child Labour in Bolivia
Amy Booth reports for Vice News: More children will work to survive now that the government has paused the education system until 2021, say observers. A decision by Bolivia’s interim government to suspend the academic year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the region’s most impoverished, rural nations promises to drive more children…
Problems – evo/MAS – Problemas
Raul Peñaranda, Pagina Siete: Evo and MAS’s problems The MAS was in power for so long that it doesn’t realize that it has already lost it. But i8t continues with that reflection, after having ruled for almost 14 years. That is why insists on imposing its whims, for example, that the elections be held on…
Bolivian bishops to protesters: Stop using pandemic for political purposes
The Catholic Universe reports: Bolivia’s bishops issued an urgent appeal for protesters to remove roadblocks, which have caused fears of shortages of medical supplies and oxygen in highland regions of the South American country amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The roadblocks — a common form of protest in Bolivia, where mountainous terrain creates choke points for…
Infants’ lives ‘hang by a thread’ as Bolivia’s political crisis, coronavirus hit hospitals
By Associated Press for Los Angeles Times: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hooked up to ventilators, 11 prematurely born infants struggled for survival Thursday in the intensive care ward of a Bolivian maternity hospital. The infants’ supply of oxygen was in peril, doctors said, because of nationwide blockades by supporters of the party of former President Evo Morales…
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