PAT TV reports: TIPNIS leaders do not accept government’s conditions, they want the police to let the other indigenous people to be allowed to enter the plaza. They reminded president’s invitation and that he was going to wait for them in Plaza Murillo. They also said, “we did not come to La Paz to write…
Day: October 20, 2011
20:00 Bolivian TIPNIS update 10/20/11
PAT news program reports that a letter from the government was sent to the indigenous leaders, accepting the addition of more leaders to the meeting with the president, on top of the twenty originally mentioned. Now, the TIPNIS group will have to decide if the dialogue takes place or not. One of the pending issues, denied…
TIPNIS will meet current Bolivian president tonite!
The Bolivian government has finally come to its sense, so I believe as I read Pagina Siete’s website this afternoon: Ivan Canelas, minister of communication has said that the president has agreed to meet with 20 TIPNIS leaders at 18:00 in the executive government palace. http://www.paginasiete.bo/2011-10-20/Nacional/Destacados/dialogo.aspx 19:00 PAT news program reports that indigenous people are…
Bolivia and Libya governmental relations
This picture appeared in Facebook’s page Democracia Para Bolivia, see link below. It portrays Bolivian current president with recently passed away Muammar Gaddafi. Bolivian president along with Venezuela’s Chavez had some sort of friendship with Gaddafi, like the one they have with Iran and Syria. Current Bolivian president was awarded a prize from Libya, some years back. http://facebook.com/democraciabolivia
Bolivian inflation figures, as of Sep 2011
The Bolivian Foreign Commerce Institute (IBCE) has released its biweekly electronic bulletin Nº 71 – Bolivia, October 20, 2011. Inflation figures follows: Data is for 2011, January – September; percentage variation: monthly, cumulative and last 12 months. Source Bolivian Central Bank; chart made by IBCE; (p) preliminary data. This cartoon is from El Diario (Oct 17, 2011)….
At last! some positive & promissing news for Bolivia
These days we are witnessing the struggle of a Bolivian indigenous group fighting for their rights and territory, failed Judiciary “elections”. In this post I intend to look at another important issue: entrepreneurship as a means to overcome poverty. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), has as its goal to make high quality information on global entrepreneurial, as such they…
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