There are at least three major violent struggles in Bolivia this week. The health strike fighting the eight-hour day-work that current government stubbornly advocates, as if that would be the main cause to improve health attention. The TIPNIS march that had to postpone one day the start of their protest-walk, starting from Trinidad as the…
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Current Bolivian economic and political struggle
The following recent cartoons portray our current frustrating reality: This is from La Prensa, April 11, 2012. A big ship emulating the Titanic, is going to crash with an iceberg who has “blockades, marches, strikes” all over. A person in the Bolivian ship says “let not happen like 100 years ago, we have time to…
An interesting assessment of the Bolivian industry
Alberto Bonadona analyzes our industry, from El Deber: The national industry It is no secret that the domestic industry is emerging and, apart from what it may mean the oil sector, is highly concentrated in food products. This places, comparatively with countries undergoing industrialization, in a rudimentary stage. The first [place] of national industries, its…
Blockades and threats of violence against TIPNIS’ defenders and the Ninth protest-walk, April 2012
TIPNIS’ 9th protest-walk is under fire, this cartoon is from El Dia, March 27, 2012. It reads “Beating without responsible ones” and below that: “the chain of command was broken!” so that the cruel, unnecessary beating from the police force to the 8th protest-walk of last year’s. No one takes the responsibility for that atrocious…
Good news for Bolivia!! will start exporting meat this year!
Bolivian productivity has faced obstacles during most of the time, and any advance should be commended (even under current government’s gracious ‘concession’), in this case Fridosa’s excellent products will reach the export market for good, Pagina Siete reports: The Government authorized the Santa Cruz company Fridosa to export 500 tonnes (tons) of meat; in addition…
Potosi and Tarija will push for Federalism (this post didn’t appear on 4/20/12)
Bolivia continues to change, we went from a Republic to a Pluri-national State. Now, two of the nice Bolivian departments want to shift from a Unitary type of government to a Federal one. This news appeared in http://www.hoybolivia.com: The President of the civic Committee of Tarija, Walter Mogro, announced a meeting with civic of Potosí…
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