John Otis writes for OPB: A vineyard in Tarija, Bolivia, the center of the country’s wine industry. A growing number of wineries here are improving their techniques, ramping up production and starting to export, as global interest in Bolivia’s award-winning wines grows.Insights/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Bolivia is better known for snow-capped mountains than sun-drenched vineyards,…
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Goni tells the truth about the Bolivian economic boom; wasted under evo, who is nothing but an upstart cheap liar!
Letter from Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Former President of Bolivia, 1993-97 and 2002-03, to the Financial Times, graph at the bottom from El Dia: My policies helped pave the way for Bolivia’s boom I have always trusted the Financial Times but your Big Read on Bolivia, “The limits of Evonomics” (October 9), has shaken my…
Bolivia’s election could lead to a ruthless ‘elected dictatorship.’ But no one’s paying attention
Andres Oppenheimer writes for The Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, click here: President Evo Morales has twisted Bolivia’s constitution to allow him to run for a fourth term, despite term limits. AIZAR RALDES GETTY IMAGES Much of Latin America’s attention is focused on the Oct. 27 elections in Argentina and Uruguay. But there’s a scandalous election…
Comcipo maintains indefinite general strike in Potosí
Radio Fides reports: The meeting between the Government and the Potosinist Civic Committee (Comcipo) this morning failed to suspend the indefinite general strike in Potosí that today enters its eighth day. The president of the civic entity, Marco Antonio Pumari, told the Fides radio morning coffee program that “the indefinite general strike continues.” He explained…
evo’s lasting legacy …
Even if he were to obey the Referendum of 2/21/2016 that ruled him out for running again for the presidency, even if hw would do it today … this is the last of the wrongdoings he made happen, after 14 years of ochlocracy … evo managed to put out of business thousand of SMEs as…
OAS Says Lula Forced the Company to Undertake Bolivia Construction Project
Felipe Bächtold & José Marques, Folha; Paula Bianchi, The Intercept Brasil, report for Folha de Sao Paulo: Case was shared by Lava Jato prosecutors; former president denies illicit While negotiating a plea bargain agreement, businessman Léo Pinheiro, former president of OAS, said the construction company undertook work in Bolivia to please former president Lula (PT)….
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