After the election for Governors and Mayors in Bolivia, it was clear that something happened to the support to the coca grower ochlocracy, the masismo lost big time. Humberto Vacaflor describes superbly the mood of the president, he writes in HoyBolivia.com Moods of the President President Evo Morales is not a fool, as is well-known….
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A Bolivian myth: Could an angry person prepare a spicier llajua?
Bolivian hot spice is known as llajwa or llajua, we used in most our foods, it is like the ketchup for some Americans, who eat it with all their food… Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Could an angry person prepare a spicier llajua? A group of students from the Escuela Hotelera [Hotel School] in…
Financial Applications win at Innovalab: innovation and creativity win-win!
aPagina Siete reports: Financial Applications win at Innovalab The BISA Bank chose three groups as winners of the first innovation laboratory: Innovalab, held in La Paz. The selected applications were BISA Life, Chuspita and Lightning. The multidisciplinary groups worked strenuously for 48 hours in the creation of these technological solutions, received an economic incentive and, most…
Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower
El Diario reports: Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower The export of soybean and sunflower fell 28% in value terms and 23% in volume terms in January this year [2015], with regard to the same month last year, something that had not happened ten years ago. A report by the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade…
Approved law that protects the packhorses
El Deber reports: Approved law that protects the packhorses Regulates the transit of wagons and was approved by the City Council after animal advocates protested and met with Evo Morales. The Santa Cruz City Council passed a law regulating the use and circulation of cars and horsedrawn carriages, after several protests by the mistreatment of…
The incompetence and damaging “learning” process of the masismo! WTH!?
In his well-rehearsed melodramatic voice, current Bolivia president always like to say “I am learning, I did not know…” … over and over we heard this, through a “learning” decade, that Bolivia has lost, over $150 billion of our dollars were wasted. Now, the news of a failure, due to irresponsible demagogue and plain incompetence…
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