Temperatures soar in Bolivia as El Nino smashes records

Reuters reports for Al Jazeera: Temperatures soar in Bolivia as El Nino smashes records At least five major cities report their highest temperatures in more than half a century. Steff Gaulter | 27 Jan 2016 08:45 GMT | Weather, Latin America El Nino has brought hot weather to much of Bolivia. Several regions have reported…

Censorship to Amalia Pando – Bolivia’s freedom of expression in peril!

From the  editorial ssection of Pagina Siete: Censorship to Amalia Pando The journalist Amalia Pando said she heads the ‘blacklist’ of the Government and that is why any entrepreneur media are encouraged to hire her or rent you a space to make its program. He also denounced that its recently-broadcast programs were eliminated without consent of…

Expert questions economic growth data

El Diario reports: Presidential speech Expert questions economic growth data Darío Monasterio, analyst, questioned the data presented yesterday by President Evo Morales, when he argued that the average economic growth of the country has been 5, in the last decade. The expert, via phone call with El Diario, questioned data exposed by the President in…

Bolivian Economics 101: Low inflation in 2015

Armando Mendez writes in El Diario: Low inflation in 2015 Without doubt, a remarkable fact of the behavior of the Bolivian economy during year 2015 was the low rate of inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), published monthly by the National Statistics Institute. The year ended with an annual rate of 3%, while…