Jimmy Ortiz writes in El Diario: Bolivia has the largest informal economy in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a working document entitled Shadow economies around the world: what have we learned in the last 20 years? In which 158 economies were studied, the country obtained a percentage of 62.3% (El…
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As Bolivian forests burn, Evo’s bet on Big Farming comes under fire
Reuters report for Channel News Asia: SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA/LA PAZ, Bolivia: In the tropical Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a wealthy farming hub on the edge on the Amazon rainforest, President Evo Morales gathered with ranchers late last month to celebrate a maiden shipment of beef to China. An elaborate…
Devastating fires in Bolivia: A political tool
Carlos Guzman reports for Open Democracy: Uncontrolled fires linked to agricultural expansions are being used as a political tool during this election year in Bolivia and are causing catastrophic consequences. Español. 28 August 2019, Bolivia, Santa Rosa de Tucabaca: The Chiquitania forest on fire. | Photo: Gaston Brito/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved. The fires in the lowlands of…
Bolivia’s forest fires, beef exports and video evidence of who started those fires!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Initially is interesting to see this “Dialogo Chino” site, Chinese are aggressively inserting in Latin America, it doesn’t matter how they kill our biodiversity, or how they treat local employees, they have the money and little by little are pushing their way in. Miriam Jemio reports for Dialogo Chino, cartoon from Pagina…
On the razor’s edge
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: The fate of the country is, at the present time, in a delicate situation in which its destiny will be inclined to progress or backwardness. The objective conditions of that reality have been laid bare in the electoral stage that is under development, amid contradictory conditions. The…
How evo is now perceived by the world’s socialist community …
Bolivian Thoughts Opinion: They usually tend to amaze me, I’m talking about the self-labelled socialists that pullulate our world … during the 90’s they were mostly known as the watermelons … red inside and green on the outside, as they intended to reinvent themselves as their “logic and theory” became impractical, while environmental issues were…
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