A good Editorial from El Diario, photo from Pagina Siete [03/25/2018]: When the times of financial boom have passed and it is necessary to live with what little you have, it is worrisome and dangerous that the government is determined to increase the country’s external debt. There are announcements that “there will be a new…
Month: October 2018
For a Growing Number of Voters in Bolivia, Their President Is Overstaying His Welcome
Stratfor reports: With President Evo Morales’ once immense support in decline, Bolivia’s next presidential election, in October 2019, risks becoming a flashpoint for political unrest — though Morales likely remains just popular enough to win re-election. In February 2016, Morales asked voters to remove presidential term limits from the constitution. After a bare majority said no, Morales…
Bolivia arrives at exhibition in Paris with Aymara architecture and fashion
AFP reports for Pagina Siete: Ana Palza will be accompanied by the well-known Aymara dressmaker Bertha Acarapi and other seamstresses. Bolivia will arrive at “Geometries of the South: From Mexico to Patagonia”, an exhibition of the Cartier Foundation that will be inaugurated next Sunday in Paris, hand in hand with the Chola fashion, typical clothes…
They deliver the regulation of the Law of the Bolivian cueca
Pagina Siete reports, photo from the internet: The Ministry of Culture and Tourism delivered yesterday the “Specific Regulation to the Law of the Bolivian cueca” which aims to “regulate cultural policies for the safeguarding, research, revitalization, preservation, protection, dissemination, promotion and training of the Bolivian cueca.” The central act was held in the Plaza Murillo…
Ex-Bolivian president Mesa launches 2019 election bid
AFP reports for France 24: LA PAZ (AFP) – Bolivian ex-president Carlos Mesa on Saturday launched his candidacy for the 2019 election, in which he will face Evo Morales who will be seeking his fourth consecutive term. Analysts believe 65-year-old Mesa, a historian and journalist who previously governed Bolivia between 2003 and 2005, is the only hope…
Urgency to support national production
An Editorial from El Diario: Both at government levels and private entrepreneurs, declarations and formulated purposes in the sense of supporting national production are issued; it is said, almost pompously, that medium and small businesses will receive the necessary support to produce and, if possible, to grow and become large companies; but reality – always…
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