Ismael Luna reports in El Dia: It is urgent to make a turn in the energy matrix Note. The need to do so arises from the analysis that the country is increasingly dependent on the importation of liquid fuels: diesel and gasoline In a historical context of the last 14 years of scarce hydrocarbon exploration,…
Month: February 2020
When Did Bolivia Become A Democracy?
Benjamin Elisha Sawe reports for World Atlas: Bolivia became a full democracy in 1982 after a military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 – 1982 Bolivia is the fourth largest country in South America and the 28th in the world. It is a land-locked country, and its small population comprises of indigenous communities such as the Amerindian,…
Fourteen years of corruption everywhere – Catorce años de corruptela por doquier
Editorial from El Diario: Fourteen years of corruption everywhere The Transitional Government has been announcing a series of mismanagement and peculation committed during the 14 years of the government that ceased. The proliferation reaches a degree of corruption saturated at all levels of public and decentralized administration, enough to place the country among the most…
Woman alleged to have sudden fortune arrested in Bolivia
AP reports for CityNews 1130: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Authorities in Bolivia said Thursday they have arrested a woman with suspected links to drug traffickers who amassed an inexplicable fortune within just a few years. Interior Minister Arturo Murillo told the Unitel television station that Dora Vallejos, 36, turned herself in the night before. “She…
A synonym for cocaine? You mean the Chapare? YES!
No pasa ni una semana sin que se descubran nuevos laboratorios o tráfico de cocaina … evo cambió la naturaleza del Chapare. Not a single week goes by, without the discovery of new labs or cocaine traffic … evo changed Chapare’s nature.
Unmasking the MAS – Desenmascarando al masismo
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Propaganda spending The government of Jeanine Áñez is now facing a difficult dilemma. To face the cynicism of the masistas, she would need to keep the millionaire propaganda budget, but she can’t do it because she must reduce spending to reduce the fiscal deficit and pay salaries. A masista…
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