Juan Antonio Morales, Pagina Siete: Our history is marked by a rosary of missed opportunities. In hindsight, it is quite clear and documented that we missed the export boom of 2004-2014. In some years, such as 2012 and 2013, the extra income we received was higher than 8% of GDP. Historians of our economy will…
Category: Business
Crime investigation – Investigación de delitos
Editorial, El Diario: In recent years, crimes of corruption proliferated in dependencies of the Plurinational State that caused the country to receive high marks from international organizations and severe criticism from public opinion, which caused so much unrest that it caused the destabilization of some governments. These acts of corruption in ministries, public companies, official…
Let’s legalize smuggling! – ¡Legalicemos el contrabando!
Editorial, El Deber: It is estimated that smuggling enters the country around $2.3 billion in merchandise each year: almost 6% of GDP! There are more than 1,500 different types of products that enter illegally from neighboring countries: fruits, vegetables, rice, preserves, meat, beer, clothing (more than 7,000 tons per year), electrical appliances, medicines, computers, toys,…
Gas per dripper – Gas por gotero
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Memories of the present YPFB officials announce, with great fanfare, a contract to export 133,000 cubic meters of gas per day to Brazil. And they hope to be applauded. They should know that the pipeline that will now carry that volume of gas has a capacity of 30 million cubic meters…
Polluting mercury – Mercurio contaminante
El Dia: Estudio revela que Bolivia importa 200 toneladas de mercurio, 68 van a la minería aurífera Bolivia registra un incremento “exponencial” en la importación de 200 toneladas de mercurio totalmente “legal”, por la baja tasa arancelaria, de las cuales 68 toneladas van a la pequeña minería aurífera, un hecho que sucede a pesar de…
Animosity against the productive elite – Animosidad contra la élite productiva
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: The speeches, attitudes and threats of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora against what we can illustrate as the productive elite, which it seems they want to drown, contradicts the national objective of facing the economic crisis. It is not an ideological slogan of anger against the rich, since there are…
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