El Diario reports: Ministry of Defense 4,436 families were affected and had to leave their flooded homes to protect their safety, according to minister Javier Zavaleta Government suspended solidarity flights and continues search for missing persons in Caranavi Stabilization work in the Armas bridge sector, in the Santa Bárbara – Caranavi section, route that was…
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So Much Gas, So Few Allies Spells Trouble in Populist Nation [evo, you’re done!]
Laura Millan Lombrana, Jonathan Gilbert, and Sabrina Valle report for Bloomberg: South America’s only successful populist government has triumphed largely thanks to the natural gas it exports to its neighbors. But that may soon be changing. Contracts with Bolivia’s biggest customers — Brazil and Argentina — are in the process of being renegotiated at a time when…
After failures to attract investments, what?
An Editorial from El Diario: The government, with a view to obtaining investments, on both the part of United States, England, Germany and Canada, organized meetings with businessmen and capitalists in each capital of those countries and tried to encourage them and give them assurances so that they invest financial capital, technology and human capital…
February 2019: If traveling by road in Bolivia, beware of this …
Pagina Siete reports: ABC reports eight closed sections in the country The Bolivian Road Administration (ABC) reported over the weekend that eight road stretches were closed to traffic due to landslides and floods. “The first section is Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey, which at first has suffered several landslides at the height of what is Choro Alto, Choro…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
Bolivia Corruption Rank [under evo, the lowest ever, as expected!]
Pagina Siete reports, excerpts follow: … Bolivia obtained a score of 29 out of 100, where zero is very corrupt and 100 is very transparent, the country is ranked 132. … https://www.paginasiete.bo/economia/2019/1/30/bolivia-obtiene-su-peor-calificacion-sobre-percepcion-de-corrupcion-de-ultimos-siete-anos-207500.html Trading Economist reports: Bolivia is the 132 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by…
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