Get vaccinated, the only option Bolivia is going through a third wave that, as doctors had warned, is more virulent than the first. There are two details that make the difference between one and the other: confinement and infections to young people. The first wave caught the country off guard. It was painfully confirmed that…
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Iván Lima: muddies Bolivian justice – enloda la justicia boliviana
Editorial, El Deber: The sad role of the Minister of Justice The act of interpellation to the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima Magne, in the Legislative Assembly was anything but that, a grotesque spectacle more typical of the worst face of politics, the one that exhibits cynicism, manipulation and lies, than of a respectable state…
Deficiencies that kill during pandemic – Carencias que matan en pandemia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: In the third wave of Covid-19, Bolivia is setting record figures for the entire pandemic in terms of deaths and positive cases per day. For example, during the previous week more than 3,000 cases were registered daily, compared to the maximum of 2,886 reported in the second wave. In terms of deaths,…
Discredit of justice – Desprestigio de la justicia
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Council of the Magistracy and discredit of justice The discredit and loss of prestige that affect the Bolivian administration of justice is not a matter of concern for the Council of the Magistracy, the instance of the Judicial Organ responsible, according to the Constitution, “for the disciplinary regime of the ordinary, agro-environmental…
Polluting mercury – Mercurio contaminante
El Dia: Estudio revela que Bolivia importa 200 toneladas de mercurio, 68 van a la minería aurífera Bolivia registra un incremento “exponencial” en la importación de 200 toneladas de mercurio totalmente “legal”, por la baja tasa arancelaria, de las cuales 68 toneladas van a la pequeña minería aurífera, un hecho que sucede a pesar de…
Animosity against the productive elite – Animosidad contra la élite productiva
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: The speeches, attitudes and threats of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora against what we can illustrate as the productive elite, which it seems they want to drown, contradicts the national objective of facing the economic crisis. It is not an ideological slogan of anger against the rich, since there are…
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