A sound Editorial from El Deber: The legal assurances One of the little observed consequences of the rise of prices of raw materials exported by Bolivia is that in the country, there is now the petty idea that the economy can grow without the need for private investment. The bonanza had other consequences, like the…
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Bolivian gov issues bonds paying high rates and does not use CAF low interest loans!!
Marco Chuquimia reports for El Deber: THIS YEAR THE COMMITMENT OF THE AGENCY IS TO GIVE $500 MILLION DOLLARS CAF ensures that the country will not use 100% of their credit The private sector receives about $100 million and the remaining are for public investment projects, roads mainly, according to the entity. The country receives…
Current Bolivian president wants to remain ‘Ad vitam aeternam’!
Caros Cordero writes in El Deber: The lifetime Presidency It is not the first time that President Evo Morales says that the minority peasant indigenous sector of the country (see the results of the 2012 census in this regard), through the political instrument known as the MAS, has come to the Government Palace to stay…
What is and should be the role of the Bolivian Army?
El Deber’s editorial: Democracy and armed forces What Bolivia currently needs the least are the shocks affecting its institutional framework. Isn’t that precisely the nation is respecting rigorously its rules, much less. On the contrary, we know that there is a clear process of chaos and deterioration in the country’s institutions. What is serious is,…
Is democracy lost in current Bolivia?
El Dia’s Editorial: Who will save democracy? President Morales has returned to affirm that his political project or maybe he, coming to be the same, have become to stay indefinitely at the Quemado Palace. He says, after at least six political groupings have practically confirmed to participate in the general elections of 2014. The presidential…
The Bolivian economy as of August 2013
El Diario reports: The Bolivian economy as of August 2013 GROWTH: The growth rate of Bolivian GDP, as of June 2013 reached 6.5%. Meanwhile, the growth rate of the GDP from the manufacturing industry came to the 4.21% (March, 2013), according to – Macroeconomic Monitor -, the National Chamber of Industries [CNI]. INFLATION: 2013 inflation as…
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