By Explica: The Bolivian indigenous leader Felipe « El Mallku » Quispe, a harsh critic of former President Evo Morales (2006-2019), died on Tuesday sick of Covid-19, refusing until the last moment to receive medical treatment against that disease whose existence he refused to admit, local media reported. « I have unfortunate news to confirm, that our brother Felipe…
Tag: Corona virus
Inercia – Arce – Inertia
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The measures that do not arrive As much as the virus is increasingly familiar and close to us, we will never finish knowing it. Maybe we will learn to fight it and hope that sooner or later the vaccine can neutralize it, but while humanity desperately advances in that sense, the virus,…
El dilema – The dilemma
Rafael Sosa, El Dia: Health and economy How to find the balance? Providing information on the prevention of Covid-19 and testing campaigns can become much more effective measures than rigid quarantines in Bolivia, where there is talk of emphasizing economic reactivation, said Pablo Mendieta, an economist at the Bolivian Center for Economic Studies of the…
Gobierno inactivo – Dormant government
Editorial, Página Siete: Inaction against the coronavirus Scientists have been warning for months that there would be a second wave of coronavirus infections. This was tragically demonstrated first in Europe, where the second wave has been devastating. Since the new coronavirus pandemic began, 568,000 people have died in Europe. Most of these deaths have taken…
MBtv: Bolivia festival cancellation hits artisans’ livelihood
MBeditor, Macau Business: [To watch the video, click the photo] Master embroiderer Felix Quisbert Gutierrez, an artisan who creates folkloric dance costumes, laments the economic and cultural effects of the shuttering of his 50-year-old business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and worries what the cancelling of celebrations and parties will mean long-term for…
Gobierno adormecido – Sleepy government
Página Siete: Dangerous lines The government does not seem to have realized the risk involved in people standing in endless lines in the streets, day and night, to renew their driver’s license or identity card. You don’t have to be a scientist to realize that these lines may be spreading the coronavirus through crowding and…
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