A very clear Editorial from El Diario: Doubtful “economic stability” The economic stability of the country is a matter of great concern to citizens and while some say that it is “reinforced” and will last long, others less optimistic argue that it is more fragile than glass and will break on the short than the…
Month: January 2016
Bolivia faces crisis on hydrocarbon production levels
El Diario reports: According to analysts Bolivia faces reserves’ crisis The 2016-2020 National Development Plan proposes to increase hydrocarbon production levels, to mitigate “any reduction in international prices”, which was questioned by analysts Guillermo Torres and Marco Gandarillas, on the understanding that the country has no new fields and to discover them for further exploitation…
Genetically modified crops spark controversy in Bolivia
Carlos Heras, EFE reports for FoxNews Latino: Genetically modified crops spark controversy in Bolivia Agriculture, which accounts for about 15 percent of Bolivia’s gross domestic product, is at the center of a controversy over genetically modified crops, with the government limiting the use of transgenic seeds to soybeans and farmers demanding expanded use to increase…
Two Bolivians earn international award, we must stop feminicide!
ANF reports in El Dia: King of Spain on journalism Two Bolivians earn international award “Femicide and violence against women in Bolivia,” prepared by the Bolivian journalists Abdel Padilla Vargas and Jose Luis Mendoza and issued the “City Square” on Radio Fides, November 8, 2014 won the XXXIII edition of the International Journalism Awards King…
Affected people from dried Poopo Lake, give alternatives to the drought
Pagina Siete reports: To the Governor of Oruro Affected people from the Poopó give alternatives to the drought The communities affected by the drought of Lake Poopo raised alternative projects to the governor of Oruro, Victor Hugo Vásquez, and technicians. The lack of water in the second mirror of the country’s largest water affects a…
The masismo over the years, have suffered democratic defeats!
An excerpt from Ivan Arias’ excellent column, counting errors and defeats of the masismo, the full article in Spanish, can be read using the link at the bottom: Masismo defeats! Making a review of the past 10 years, we find some milestones that demonstrate that opposition, in its various expressions, was not absent and in…
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