Brazil, Chile and Argentina are above Bolivia in terms of proven “retrievable” reserves of natural gas, an energy US agency reports. Also states that since there are too many regions worldwide with natural gas, that the other type of expected reserves are no longer interesting to track down. So less traceable means fewer opportunities to obtain additional investors to come to recover the TCFs we reported some years back. On the short run, if Bolivia does not create new markets or renew profitable contracts with Brazil and Argentina, we will be losing a great chunk of our income.

May 3rd is the date when urban teachers will meet to decide the kind of pressures they will engage against the government. They said that the government did not comply with their 14 point document request. The main issue being to level up the salaries among urban and rural teachers.

The president, in a trip on rural Potosi, urged the need to change the names of schools as they use Spanish names, he believes that names of indigenous leaders should be used. He also announced the creation of a museum in his small isolated hometown, Orinoca. To portrait how he became president, what he calls a revolution. This sanctuary will display the strikes and road blockades, it will be placed at a cost of three million dollars.