El Diario reports and photoshopped photo of the wannabe autocrat comes from the internet: As in Venezuela The resignation of two members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in the beginning of a pre-election period, with the holding of primary elections prior to the general elections in 2019, causes alarm in the country’s political sphere,…
Month: October 2018
Serious consequences of the second Christmas bonus
A well-thought Editorial from El Diario: The second Christmas bonus offered by the government for both the public and private sectors will be $4,751 million Bolivianos ($682.6 million dollars) more or less, which, in the conditions of poverty in which the country is debating, results in a expense contrary to any foresight of judgment and…
Pomani, center of Bolivian sport climbing
Pagina Siete reports: A tourist practices the scaling in the Pomani mountains. Photo: Facebook BLOQUEando The consolidation of Pomani as the center of Bolivian sport climbing and the mainstay of Ayo Ayo’s community tourism is the objective of the BLOQUEando 2018 Festival, which will take place from October 26 to 28. For three days, participants…
A profitable company [truths about evo’s government]
Alfonso Gumucio writes in Pagina Siete: The Government’s own information analyzed by experts indicates that most of the companies that are administered by the State (existing, nationalized or created by Evo Morales) have failed due to corruption and mismanagement. There are more visible cases than others, but they are not the most important. For example,…
Our Fish
Michael Snyder and Felipe Luna write for Pulitzer Center: Fishermen use machetes to hack away the giant scales of the invasive paiche before skinning them and casting the refuse into the river. Growing up to three meters and 250 kilograms, the paiche (Arapaima gigas) is the largest scaled fish in the Amazon and one of…
Foresters fear the suffocation of the sector because of the second Christmas bonus
Alvaro Rosales reports for El Deber: ECONOMY In the last 6 years more than 3000 production units have been closed between micro, small, medium and large, more than 25,000 workers have been fired, they fear that the situation will worsen The forestry industry works within the framework of sustainability and its actors see a gray…
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