Reuters reports through Yahoo news: Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia and Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Sunday they had signed a provisional agreement for the construction of $300 million nuclear complex in the Andean nation. Under the terms of the accord, which needs…
Month: March 2016
Scandal-Plagued Bolivia Trumpets Drug Seizure Figures
From InSight Crime: Scandal-Plagued Bolivia Trumpets Drug Seizure Figures Written by Arron Daugherty Bolivia’s government has touted an increase in drug seizures as a sign of improving interdiction capabilities, while an ongoing scandal involving President Evo Morales continues to unfold. In the first two months of 2016, Bolivia’s Special Fighting Force Against Drug Trafficking (Fuerza…
Due to lack of coherent policies, the castana [chestnut] market faces saturation
Roxana Villa reports for El Deber: Chestnut crisis facing market saturation The markets for the Bolivian product [castaña] are closing, due to the import of nearly 6,000 tons of Brazilian almond. The sector calls for more regulation. Despite the $192 million dollars generated by the export of chestnut [bertholletia excelsa] in 2015, the northern Amazon…
Bolivia’s current presidential scandal goes beyond sex
From the Miami Herald: Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s scandal goes beyond sex The scandal over Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales’ secret love affair, with a young woman with whom he had a child who the president says has died, but the woman says is alive, is making headlines throughout Latin America. But that’s the least outrageous…
Worldwide embarrassment: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals
CNN reports: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. First, the Bolivian leader had to accept defeat in a referendum making his current presidential term his last, and now he is at the center of a scandal that reads like a Bolivian…
Lets put a stop to ochlocracy, lets face Bolivia’s new era!
Andres Oppenheimer writes about Bolivia [bold] in the Miami Herald: The Oppenheimer Report: Latin America’s new era Highlights Opposition win in Bolivia’s Feb. 21 referendum was a new sign of the demise of leftist populism in the region Populist leaders have lost elections in Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia, and are in trouble in Ecuador and…
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