The New York Times: In Bolivia, bodies are piling up at homes and on the streets again, echoing the horrific images of last summer, when a deadly surge in coronavirus infections overwhelmed the country’s fragile medical system. The Bolivian police say that in January they recovered 170 bodies of people thought to have died from Covid-19,…
Tag: bad politics
Empleos – Jobs
Editorial, El Diario: Sources of employment for the working class The offer to create new sources of employment and employ numerous unemployed youth and women who join the country’s productive apparatus every year was one of the main points of the government programs of the political parties that participated in the national elections of the…
Chantaje y votos – Blackmail and votes
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Economic analysis President Luis Arce has decided to cross all barriers of ethics and now not only is he campaigning for the candidates of his party, but he has added a new element: blackmail. He carries around the warning that if voters prefer to vote for candidates from parties other than…
Un gobierno retrógrada – A retrograde government
El Diario: They regret the government’s decision regarding tourists from Israel and the US The tourism sector regrets the government’s decision to reestablish a visa for citizens of the United States and Israelis, a decision that will reduce tourism from those countries to Bolivia, the most affected regions will be La Paz, Rurrenabaque and Uyuni….
El MAS asquea – The MAS disgusts
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Political use of vaccines The government has deployed an aggressive image campaign with the arrival of 20,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which will serve to immunize 10,000 health workers in the country, which represents just 5% of the sector, which is made up of approximately 200,000 health workforce. The…
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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