Editorial from El Diario: Faced with the growing pandemic curve In circumstances close to a true explosive contagion of the Covid-19, the sanitary provisions for control and containment seem scarce. Today we reap the neglect and contempt of public health for decades and, with negative emphasis, when the country enjoyed unprecedented economic income, between 2008…
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Bolivia gets new economy minister in pre-poll shake up
Agence-France Presse reports via Yahoo News: Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Anez on Tuesday named former senator Oscar Ortiz as the Latin American country’s new economy minister, just two months before elections. Ortiz replaced Jose Luis Parada, who has been economy minister since Anez was sworn in last November after ex-president Evo Morales resigned. The government…
evo: the archetype of the bad guy – el arquetipo del mal tipo
Marcelo Miranda writes in El Diario: Evo Morales, the archetype of the bad guy Evo Morales was never what a good person is meant to be, since his beginnings as a member of the cocalero movement in the Chapare he already brought out his intransigence and his clumsy and abusive way of doing politics, that…
Bolivia Digs Mass Graves as Cemeteries Fill With Coronavirus Victims
Reuters reports for The New York Times: LA PAZ — Local authorities are digging mass graves at cemeteries across Bolivia to receive a new wave of victims from COVID-19, unnerving Bolivians as the outbreak rips across the Andean nation. Bolivia has registered 35,500 cases of the virus and 1,200 deaths. Though the tally is low…
Alliance for employment and production – Alianza por el empleo y la producción
Jimmy Ortiz writes in El Deber: Alliance for employment and production The economic and social consequences that the Coronavirus crisis has left us, will have to be faced among all. The fall in GDP in Bolivia, by 5.9%, will be the worst in national history. The world expects a 5.2% drop, which will mean “the…
Informality and resilience in the pandemic – Informalidad y resiliencia en la pandemia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Informality and resilience in the pandemic In Bolivia the development pattern has always been primary exporter and it seems that it will continue to be; all bets on industrialization have failed. The mentality of Bolivians, of the political authorities, of businessmen and of the popular sectors is extractivist, together…
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