The megalomaniac way of government of the coca grower caudillo can be summarized with this phrase: What comes around, goes around. This cartoon exemplifies clearly the way the masismo is killing our institutionality and democracy! Cheap demagogue coming to an end!
Month: September 2016
Electric Cooperatives of Oklahoma bring power to remote villages in Bolivia
Sequoyah County Times reports: Electric Cooperatives of Oklahoma bring power to remote villages in Bolivia Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative, Inc. (CHEC) is pleased to announce the completion of a volunteer electrification project that took place in August 2016 in the Amazonian area of Bolivia. One of CHEC’s linemen and Sallisaw resident, Jeremy Baker, served as…
Bolivian gov flunked: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars
Pagina Siete reports via hoybolivia.com: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars The value of domestic exports until July continued its downward trend and decreased by 26% compared to 2015, while the trade deficit soared, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). The figures show that in the first seven months of last year sales…
Bolivia’s transgender citizens celebrate new documents
Reuters reports n BBC: Bolivia’s transgender citizens celebrate new documents Bolivian transgender activists celebrated on Tuesday as they became the first to be issued with new IDs. Under a new law passed in May, transgender citizens can request having their name, gender and photo changed on official documents in order to reflect the gender they…
BME and BBV start up Bolivia Stock Exchange’s trading platform
BME reports in Finextra.com: BME and BBV start up Bolivia Stock Exchange’s trading platform Bolsa Boliviana de Valores (BBV) and BME have started up a new trading platform for the Latin American venue as part of the market’s upgrade. The new IT system, called SMART BBV, was designed and developed by BME and supports several…
The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS, for the wrong reasons!
El Dia reports: The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS Factory workers dismiss the MAS as an instrument of defense of labor rights and discuss the formation of a political party for 2019 to the mistreatment received by the Government in recent years. That possibility and other issues are discussed in a national expanded…
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