El Diario reports: Millennium propounds productive development policies They are increasingly less entrepreneurs dedicated to the production, primarily industrial. Most of them prefer import trade, often more profitable and less demanding of employees. PROPOSAL To reverse this anomaly, the Millennium Foundation, in a document entitled The decrees of May 1: Beyond dynamite, proposed to the…
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This is Bolivia under the coca grower “president”
These cartoons [06/10/2016] show vividly how Bolivia is badly doing under the worst ochlocracy that governed ever! This one is from El Diario: While John Doe is claiming for help as he is drowning is a sea of blockades, and strikes… the president tells the vp: “just pretend you didn’t see him, little Alvaro…!”…
Melting Pot and Manq’a Bolivia proves it can be done!
Melting Pot Bolivia reports: Learning to cook together for a better world” The MANQ’A Project (Aymara word meaning “food”), is an initiative of Melting Pot Bolivia created with the aim of improving the quality of life of the community in El Alto within the principles of gender equity, multiculturalism and food sovereignty. The MANQ’A project…
Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell
Plastics News reports: Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell Bolivia’s state-owned petrochemical company will license polypropylene technology from LyondellBasell Industries for use at the country’s first plastic resins plant. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has selected Spheripol process technology for the 550-million-pound capacity plant in Tarija. Market sources said the plant is expected…
Homestays and rural ways: Flora Baker savours Bolivia – in pictures
Flora Baker for The Guardian: The food and colours of working life in the Andean foothills are captured in these images snapped while undertaking voluntary work. I’m a travel writer from London who spent 18 months volunteering in South America. In Bolivia, I volunteered at a rural library project in the village of Morado K’asa,…
MAS bets on turmoil to stay in government!
Grimaldes reports in El Deber: Protests affect much of Bolivia Heavy-load transport, factory workers dismissed from the Enatex textile company, people with disabilities, people of Guayaramerín and cement Fancesa owners are mobilized. The sectors of heavy-load transport, people with disabilities, owners of the National Cement Factory in Sucre, residents of Guayaramerín, residents of El Alto,…
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