El Dia reports about long distance phone calls to and from Bolivia, as year’s end is approaching plan your best options: The telephone companies that offer long distance services in the country, are preparing to launch promotions and offers during end year’s festivities. They say demand for such international phone calls go up by as much as…
Month: November 2011
Taxing the music arts is still confusing
El Deber reports on how the tax structure in Bolivia for Art is still confusing, un-motivating and restraining our culture. This cartoon shows how puzzled look all our forms of Art. When Gonzalo Hermosa, leader of Los Kjarkas [on of the major and most famous folk groups in country; one of their songs became the Lambada and was recently sung…
Alpaca Fashion 2011, integrates SMEs to demanding markets
La Razon reported yesterday about Alpaca Fashion 2011: Alpaca Fashion Event 2011, organized by the Chamber of Exporters of La Paz (Camex), with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its project PC-Bolivia and the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia, promoted the first “inverse” trade mission for American buyers for the sector of…
Indigenous will ask to revoke current president if TIPNIS’ accords are not enforced
Indigenous Assembly Member, Bienvenido Zacu (MAS) regretted that in the last week he has heard statements that call again for a road to be built through the middle of the reserve. During last week, some groups aligned to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) wanted to re-start the highway project Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, through the modification of the law that…
Congrats to Textilon
It is hard to see Bolivian companies succeeding, let alone “surviving” under harsh circumstances that global market economy and/or internal Bolivian conditions impose to our brave entrepreneurs. Today I have to congratulate Textilon, a Bolivian industry with more than 40 years of work. La Prensa reports: Fashion. Hand in hand with innovation and upgrading, Textilon presented at the…
To DEa or not to BE, cocaine is the question
This cartoon is from El Diario, November 13, 2011. You can see current Bolivian vice-president, in a James Bond posture saying: “The DEA will not return to this country… we don’t need them…! Our security organizations are sufficient!” That is how current Bolivian government perceives the narcotraffick cartels: as children’s play. Pagina Siete reports: “Bolivia is the…
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