Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Dismantle institutions or blue massacre President Luis Arce Catacora ordered public officials “to continue with the dismantling of the neoliberal model.” The words were pronounced on the same day that the last park rangers and qualified workers who take care of the main natural reserves in Bolivia were dismissed en masse…
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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…
In photos: how Bolivia’s masked shoe-shiners became superheroes
Federico Estol’s series gives glamour and respect to La Paz’s marginalised community, Financial Times: There are 3,000 shoe-shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, each day in search of clients. They are all ages and have become a unique phenomenon: what distinguishes this tribe is their use of ski…
Water Security In Bolivia Declines From Glacier Melt
By Olivia Berntsson, theowp.org: Bolivia’s Tuni glacier has shrunk rapidly over the past decade, now putting the nation’s capital city in a critical water shortage. Located in the heart of South America, the landlocked country experiences low rainfall and regular droughts. The 800,000 citizens of La Paz have depended on water from the glaciers of the…
Bolivia registered a new daily record with 2,655 confirmed cases of coronavirus
Explica.co: Bolivia once again beat its daily record of COVID-19 infections, which is close to 200,000 accumulated positive cases since March 2020. The latest data from the Ministry of Health show 2,655 new infections, which raises 193,745 confirmed cases with a curve that shows a marked rise in positives for days in this country, of about eleven and a…
Desempleo – Unemployment
Editorial, El Diario: Growing unemployment Numerous economic aspects inherited by the government of President Luis Arce Catacora have determined that unemployment in the country, already existing for years, continues to grow even more and that for new causes it acquires a level that is still worrying and even alarming. This problem has already been detected…
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