El Diario reports: Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain Bolivia in 2014, received in remittances the sum of $1,163.6 million dollars, a 1.5% lower amount as compared to 2013, when Bolivia received $1,181.8 million dollars, according to the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB). According to a report from this institution, the decrease…
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Bolivia’s current president now wants to grab the $$ of OUR Pension!
Roberto Ortiz: Evo Morales Raids Bolivia’s Pension Pots Third-Term President Targets Retirement Funds to Shore Up Spending In the middle of the previous century, Chilean Harvard-trained economist José Piñera Echenique came up with a private pensions fund system, implemented in Chile for the first time in 1980. The scheme, based on personal contributions to savings…
Bolivia Carnival 2015 travel by bus: YOU can report bad or reckless bus service
Pagina Siete reports: IT IS THE PORTAL http://WWW.PASAJEROSEGURO.BO They launch website to report buses’ bad service If a bus driver drink alcoholic beverages will be stopped by the police. The Transport and Telecommunications Authority (ATT) has launched its website http://www.pasajeroseguro.bo to report recklessness behavior or drinking for drivers who drive buses on interdepartmental trips. “The…
The downfall of a cheap myth: Evo’s Third Inauguration/Nine Years of Paradox in Bolivia
The following is an interesting article regarding the “evolution” of current Bolivian president… but first I would like to say that he just took over the presidency for the third consecutive time, which is at least illegitimate, to say the least. And, most of all as he got more votes than number of people actually…
Do remittances drive economic growth?
Important analysis for Bolivia, as we receive over a billion dollars, every year, in remittances. Great analysis from the: Do remittances drive economic growth? The World Bank recently forecast that remittances to developing countries will total more than US$450 billion this year, a bit bigger than Venezuela’s economy and more than double a decade a…
2015 rain will continue until March
ANF reports in El Dia: Weather SENAMHI’s forecast, rains will continue until March The forecaster Jorge Mendez said this weekend, Saturday and Sunday [02/14/2015] in the east and west sectors of Bolivia, there will be sporadic rains like in recent days. The forecaster on duty, in the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (SENAMHI) Jorge…
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