The government is planning a trip next week to Vienna, to advocate coca chewing and in a way trying to amend the big mistake of abandoning the Vienna Convention. A major failure in the diplomatic arena that adds to the hectic and haphazard way the negotiations that are taking place with Chile. This cartoon is…
Month: March 2012
Bolivian jewelry exports’ decline
Unfortunately, one of our best alternatives of value added exports is in decline, it worries more the almost 60% reduction in volume, not so much in the dollar amount, as the increase in gold’s prices tends to offset the latter. Pagina Siete reports: The export of articles of jewelry was reduced by 58% in volume…
Bolivian government’s or market failures?
Current Bolivian government continues with indecision and has generated unnecessary production-side uncertainty, Pagina Siete reports: Restrictions on the export of rice prepared by the Government, which led to the loss of markets, and the intervention of Emapa made that an over stocking of the product takes place, resulting in a reduction of the price, according…
USA fails Bolivia in the drug trafficking war, March 2012
2012 INCSR: Introduction BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Report March 7, 2012 Legislative Basis for the INCSR The Department of State’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has been prepared in accordance with section 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the…
To be mestizo or be nothing at all, that is the Bolivian census dilemma!!
Los Tiempos reports about a serious and sensitive issue: The draft of the Census ballot conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) is included in the question “To what nation do you belong?”, but excludes the category “mestizo” within the 36 Nations as a possible answer. Next to it, the issues of housing and limits…
EXPOFOREST 2012 – March 21 – 24
From http://www.hoybolivia.com: The 10th international fair of the forest, wood & technology “EXPOFOREST 2012”, to be held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from 21 to 24 March 2012, the largest exhibition of forest industry of wood, furniture, biodiversity, research, technology, promotion of products of the forest, Bolivia and sustainable development projects. Activities of EXPOFOREST…
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