Bolivia to have a new steel factory! About time!!!

Henrry Ugarte reports in El Deber: Las Lomas invests U.S. $ 10 million in steel factory The plant will serve domestic demand, will compete with foreign production, in 2015 will reach its maximum capacity of 36,000 tons of solid bars . The sector is satisfied. The business group Las Lomas Ltd. yesterday [2/8/14] put into…

Bolivian cocoa in the verge to improve its quality!

Tatiana Sanabria reports for Pagina Siete: Swiss cocoa taster empowers producers Markus Lutz spent five days in La Paz evaluating grains of cacao from five regions of the country so that producers and entrepreneurs achieve quality in Switzerland. Fermentation is one of the secrets to get a grain of high quality cocoa, explains Swiss taster,…

How to generate employment and economic value for Bolivia!

Alberto Bonadona writes in Pagina Siete: Between what is said and what you want to hear Last week I witnessed an excellent exhibition by Enrique Velazco in the Central Bank, in which he addressed a group mostly composed of economists. The clarity with which exposed the data and the explanation made by were, as always,…

Bolivian gov’s demagogue, not nationalization but purchase!

Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: Nationalization or purchase? That of  recovering the companies for the people is becoming for us,  a very expensive activity, and each May 1st or such emblematic date of the MAS, we must tremble because the usual ‘nationalization’, which are not another thing that purchases of foreign companies, which becomes…

Bolivian gov’s wrongdoings that WE have to pay!

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Debts you have to pay For the purposes of transnational corporations, you could say that a revolution is radical indeed when their leaders refuse to pay compensation for the nationalizations that make. Cuba, for example, did not want to pay compensation and has ignored the international courts that failed…

Bolivia: from food producer to importer!

Wilfredo Ramirez writes in El Diario: From producer to importer of food As it continues, without honest and responsible forecasting the multinational Government wasteful policy, without observing behavior of austerity in the management of the moneys of the Bolivian people (expenses and investments), national majorities will continue suffering from the scourge of hunger, misery and…