Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience

[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…

MAS gov NOT to be trusted – NO se puede confiar en un gob masista

Noiana Marigo, Kate Apostolova, Lexology: ¿Bolivia vuelve a atacar el arbitraje inversor-Estado? En octubre de este año, Bolivia ratificó la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Transparencia en el Arbitraje Inversionista-Estado basado en el Tratado (la Convención), convirtiéndose en la séptima Parte Contratante. La Convención entró en vigor en octubre de 2017 y hasta…

Reformas necesarias – Crisis – Necessary reforms

Los Tiempos: CEPB suggests reforms in 7 areas to get out of the crisis The Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) has proposed to the government of President Luis Arce Catacora to apply structural reforms in seven fiscal areas to overcome the economic crisis with sustainability and projection into the next decade. The first…

No más – evo – No more

Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: We want new people It may be the first time that the whole country, everybody, coincide with some masistas. Those who yelled at the coca grower Morales, in his face, “We want new people” were telling him that they don’t want him. Neither him nor his entourage. Courage is needed to…

Subempleo – Underemployment

Pagina Siete: The underemployment shoots up to 17% and affects 597 thousand people in the country People who are underemployed do not contribute to the AFPs, do not have a permanent job with a contract and do not receive social benefits. Until the third quarter, the unemployment rate reached 10.76%, according to the INE. La…