BOLIVIA BANS BEEF EXPORTS AMID SUPPLY FEARS, RISING PRICES

Daniel Ramos, Reuters, Successful Farming: LA PAZ, April 22 (Reuters) – Bolivia has temporarily banned exports of beef in order to guarantee supply for its domestic market and to prevent prices from rising, the government said on Thursday. “We are suspending meat exports,” Minister of Rural Development and Lands Remmy Gonzales told reporters, adding the…

“corruption is becoming culture” – «corrupción se está volviendo cultura»

Candido Tancara, Pagina Siete: Church sees that “corruption is becoming culture” in the country The bishops see “urgent” judicial reform to “establish the truth of what happened” in the cases and a fiscal pact for “true economic decentralization.” Former Minister of Rural Development and Lands Edwin Characayo was discovered on Tuesday night in flagrant crime…

State still faces five arbitrations in external courts – Estado aún enfrenta cinco arbitrajes en tribunales externos

Pagina Siete: There are unresolved lawsuits from Glencore, AFPs, Orlandini mining company and Soboce. The State still faces five international arbitration lawsuits for the nationalization of mines and affecting the contracts of the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP), among others. The information was presented by the State Attorney General’s Office (PGE), during the Initial Public Accountability…

On economy and employment – Sobre economía y empleo

Editorial, Pagina Siete: A survey carried out by researchers Rodolfo Eróstegui and Rafael Cerff to 48 productive and service companies in Bolivia, brought interesting results. The objective of the survey was to know the situation that the country’s companies are going through and the changes they suffered due to the pandemic in our territory. First,…