Month: December 2014

Hail and flood damage crops in Cochabamba

ABI reports in El Dia: Cochabamba Hail and flood damage crops More than 4,500 hectares of fruit and vegetables were affected by hail and floods in the last two months in the department of Cochabamba, authorities reported yesterday. [12/15/2014] “We overcame more than 4,500 hectares at the departmental level between crops that have been affected,”…

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How can we manage illegality in today’s Bolivia?

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Manage illegality There is an area of the end of year balance, that will probably be bypassed by officers and employees of the Government. It is a balance that would help understand the pride of the Minister of Economy and his covered, concealed or re-covered helpers. Should be called:…

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In Bolivia this is not an understatement: “Justice is rotten”

Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: “Justice is rotten” Said  by the vice president and I support him fully for the first time: “Justice is rotten”. What has not said by the ‘vice’ is that justice is rotten from the moment that the MAS (who would have that idea?) came up with those judicial elections….

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Masistas brag about our economy being armored… but

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The real armor The construction boom that took place in Cochabamba has built so many apartments that most apartment buildings are empty. If these buildings had been done with money from the bank, this would be a bubble, as it was in the United States. But the bank arrears…

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German Ambassador knows better than the masistas!

Erbol reports in Pagina Siete: From GERMANY Ambassador sees “complicated” to invest in Bolivia The German Ambassador to Bolivia, Peter Linder said that investing in the country still is complicated by the lack of regulations to ensure legal certainty to foreign companies. “The issue of investment is still complicated because the current environment, from a…

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