Editorial, El Deber: Salary increase in the middle of the pandemic Almost as a routine every year, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) has announced that next week it will convene an expanded national meeting to define a list of requests to the national government, which highlights the demand to obtain a wage increase of 10…
Tag: Corona virus
Arce: es oclócrata – is an ochlocrat
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Behind the pandemic In the balance sheets on the economy, all countries point to the pandemic as the cause of the fall in growth indicators, but there are some that did not need the Chinese virus to enter the red figures. The list of those countries is worrying. The countries governed…
Narcisista – Narcissistic
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: “Once upon a man stuck to a nose” “Once upon a man with a glued nose, once upon a superlative nose, once upon an executioner and writer nose, once upon a very bearded swordfish. Once upon a time there was an ill-faced sundial, once upon a thoughtful Altar, there was an…
Bodies again pile up in Bolivia as Latin America endures a long, deadly coronavirus wave.
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,…
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…
How an Indigenous People in Bolivia’s Amazon Survived COVID-19
Pulitzer Center: When the coronavirus arrived in the spring, Yuqui fisherman Salomon Quispe was frightened. His wife had tuberculosis a few years before and was still in poor health. At 52 years old, Salomon Quispe himself was no longer as young as he once was, and he, too, felt at risk. Quispe also worried that…
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