By The Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal: Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 48.4, making its economy the 158th freest in the 2014 Index. Its overall score is 0.5 point better than last year, with notable improvements in investment freedom and trade freedom offsetting declines in business freedom, fiscal freedom, and government spending….
Month: March 2014
Beni disaster: Unsung heroes are grains of sand that imposed over the disaster
Rolando Aparicio reports for El Deber: STORIES OF LOVE AND VALUE Unsung heroes are grains of sand that imposed over the disaster Solidarity, love and empathy. The tragedy of Beni, leaves tragic images of crude suffering. In this area, they were strangers, walking neighbors, professionals and volunteers who managed to sow the best of human…
Why does current Bolivian ochlocratic gov persists with bonds?!
An Editorial from El Diario: The inconvenience of the Sovereign Bonds When in October 2012 and mid- 2013 the government issued two items of $500 million each, were held at all levels, the inconvenience of Sovereign Bonds. In October 2012 the Finance Minister clearly said that “the country does not need foreign credit because the…
Bolivian gov fails to understand priorities, embarks in useless expenses like the G77 meeting…
Marcelo Rivero writes in El Deber: The summit, a pill we must not swallow Continue sliding down the MAS authorities of all stripes from the centralism installed in La Paz in order to give instructions (are stories about consensus) overlooking the vaunted summit, using the cramp to be funny before smiling ones by force that…
Bolivian ruling ochlocratic government in carnival!
This blog has the purpose of translating from Spanish news, the best articles that can depict where are we going, not only politically, economically but as well as our heroes, our entrepreneurs, our champions. In the middle of the 2014 carnival, I thought there would be no other way to demonstrate current centralist ochlocratic government…
Beni disaster: Dams in Brazil caused overflowing rivers!!
From El Diario: Dams in Brazil caused overflowing rivers in the country As reported before by El Diario, the League of Environmental Defense says there were alteration of hydrology in the Bolivian Amazon from the Madeira River, for the negative impact on the northern region. The League of Environmental Defense (Lidema) confirmed the denunciation made…
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