Bolivia needs results/support to producers, not cheap demagogue!

Pagina Siete reports: REPORTING FOUR PROBLEMS Camelid producers have no market Camelid producers of La Paz department say that they lack market for marketing their products, so they prefer to take them to Peru. “We as camelid producers do not have a market. In the Province Franz Tamayo, near the border with Peru, the brothers…

Bolivia 2014 Crime and Safety Report

Bolivia 2014 Crime and Safety Report Travel Health and Safety; Transportation Security; Surveillance; Stolen items; Theft; Fraud; Kidnapping; Assault; Burglary; Financial Security; Floods; Carjacking; Riots/Civil Unrest; Earthquakes; Drug Trafficking Western Hemisphere > Bolivia; Western Hemisphere > Bolivia > La Paz 8/22/2014 Overall Crime and Safety Situation Crime Threats Most major cities in Bolivia have Medium…

Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works

Marcelo Campos reports for El Dia: According to American expert Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works Construction. Falls are the leading cause of death worldwide. The American specialist in fall protection, Jean Pierre Martin, said that Bolivia is the second country after Venezuela in not having rules to protect the lives of workers….

Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question

IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…

Encroachment is threatening one million hectares

Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Deforest protected area of the Rio Grande Encroachment is threatening 1 million hectares Report. The CAO accused the Deputy Mayor of Hardenman, of leading the wreckage. There is alert in the productive sector. The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) yesterday denounced the deforestation of a protected area in the town of…

Current president does not hold it together…

Humberto Vacaflor describes what is going on under the electoral campaign, he writes in El Diario: Campaign Errors To arrest Mario Orellana was clumsy by the MAS. Worse still, it was a mistake on the [election] campaign. Moreover, it was a demonstration of lack of coordination in the bowels of the political instrument of liberation….