El Diario reports: 2016 Financial Fiscal Program The dollar exchange rate will not be changed this year • The announcement was made yesterday [03/16/2016] by the President of the Central Bank, so that the purchasing power of wages will be preserved • The exchange rate policy in 2015 helped maintain low inflation The president of…
Month: March 2016
Mystery after over a tonne of dead fish wash up on shores of Bolivian lake
Reuters reports for The Telegraph: Mystery after over a tonne of dead fish wash up on shores of Bolivian lake Thousands of small sardine-like fish have been found dead in lake Allay, but no one is completely sure what caused oxygen levels in the lake to drop so dramatically. Thousands of dead fish have washed…
Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia
Los Tiempos reports: Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia The head of the bloc of Democratic Unity (UD), Arturo Murillo, yesterday [03/14/2016] asked the vice president of the Court of Accounts of the Union (Controller) of the Republic of Brazil, Julio Marcelo de Oliveira, the investigation of the lucrative contracts signed by OAS,…
Collapse of Bolivian exports
An Editorial from El Diario: Collapse of Bolivian exports Only last January, exports of various domestic products fell by one third in relation to the same month last year, according to worrying statistic provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the crash regarding foreign sales pertains to gas, manufacturing, minerals and agricultural products. More concretely,…
4 dead, 3 vendors hurt after plane hits market in Bolivia
AP reports for CBS News: 4 dead, 3 vendors hurt after plane hits market in Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia — Police in Bolivia say a small plane crashed into a market in a town in the country’s north, killing all four people in the aircraft and injuring three vendors on the ground. The Cessna 206…
Forum proposes five suggestions for Bolivian industrial development
El Diario reports: Lack of public policies Forum proposes five suggestions for industrial development • Recommended to improve productivity levels of manufacturing to reverse technological backwardness • Experts analyzed conditions for the integral development of the sector At the end of the Forum “The main engine of economic growth. Industrial productivity. Current situation and outlook in…
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