Eduardo Quintela writes for El Dia: Grows the smuggling on the border of Desaguadero Soy derivatives ‘escape’ to Peru Special report. El Dia notes the increase in petty-smuggling with little control. The ton is worth $161 in Peru Monday, June 25, 2012 It only took a couple of hours so that hundreds of quintals of…
Month: June 2012
Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto’s whereabouts, June 25, 2012
The sixth economic world power and largest international border we share with is Brazil. As such, we also depend a lot on their natural gas demand, they are our biggest, most important neighbor. Current Bolivian government still fails to respond Brazil on the political asylum granted to Senator Pinto. This past week was filled with…
Using humor to understand corruption in Bolivia
This is from El Diario, May 29, 2012: Two people talking at the balconies of the former Congress, now Assembly: Woman 1: “…Congressman “Osney” wants to be given Bs7,000 bonuses! Says his congressman stipend is Bs12,000 is misery and it doesn’t even cover his expenses..!” Woman 2: “…it must be because of that… some of…
TIPNIS UPDATE: June 23, 2012
The 9th March has experienced hatred, two fatalities in a road accident, but continue to walk towards La Paz city with great resolve. This cartoon is from El Diario, June 16, 2012: Dialogue first person “…fixing these fatally-dangerous roads, the government could avoid so much mourning and pain to the Yungas travelers and coca growers…”;…
El Mutun continues to remain an open question, by Milenio Foundation
The Milenio Foundation has just issued an interesting and however stressing report on El Mutun, I thought about translating just the questions they raise at the end, however, I concluded that some of you would like the whole report, so here it goes: El Mutun continues to remain an open question, No.151 – June 15,…
Bolivian Economics 101:The economic agenda, in its ‘infancy’
This is an interesting and enlightening article made by Juan Carlos Salinas Cortez for El Deber: Already five months passed since at the Social and Economic Summit in Cochabamba and promoted by the Government to ‘set the ground rules’ for the elaboration of economic and productive agenda with the private sector. However, so far the…
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