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…
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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…
MAS and the ideology of death – El MAS y la ideología de la muerte
Renzo Abruzzese writes in Pagina Siete: MAS and the ideology of death One of the ideological arguments that the regime of Evo Morales and his front-line ideologue, Álvaro García Linera, deployed most strongly settled in his rejection of modernity, that period of human evolution marked by rationality and scientific reason. For them it was a…
Candidates, what is the plan? – Candidatos, ¿cuál es el plan?
Editorial from El Deber: Candidates, what is the plan? The electoral race has begun. The calendar is underway and, although the campaigns are scheduled for the end of July, they have already started and, for now, are based on the adversary’s discredit rather than on the competition for proposals to be carried out during the…
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