Miguel Lazcano reports for La Razon: The Governor’s Office of the Potosí Department yesterday requested the Executive Body [central government] to analyze the possibility of militarizing the area surrounding the Mallku Khota mine, whose concession is held by the Canadian company South American Silver. The order was made yesterday by Governor Felix Gonzales Bernal, who…
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TIPNIS protest-walk ordeal update, May 21, 2012
Pablo Ortiz writes for El Deber: Weak, small, vulnerable, isolated from the help of cities by the bad condition of the roads, but firm in its intention to reach La Paz and fulfil the mandate to give their message to the world: the TIPNIS is not split apart. Thus it is the indigenous March after 23…
Hectic Bolivian times and humor, May 2012
We have been experiencing blockades, strikes, riots. University students against police; community people in Potosi fighting against each other (Mallku Khota). In sum, a total anarchical chaos. The following cartoons serve to deflate stress and bring humor to our reality: This is from El Diario, May 9, 2012: At a crossroad that signals chaos and…
Bolivian Macroeconomics 101: Foreign debt continues to rise and fewer investments arrive
Despite disdaining remarks on economic reality and ‘appearance’ of success, current government’s failures are becoming increasingly harder to hide. Yandira Toledo writes for El Dia: The debt continues rising, offsetting the investment in the country. According to the report in the monthly State of the external debt of the Central Bank of Bolivia from January 1…
Bolivia to repeat the failures of Venezuela…
This news is written by Roberto Mendez and appears in El Dia, it reports the reaction of one of the so-recent-opposition-and-former-ally of current government. I believe that its a dangerous political move of MSM if they really want to amend their former mistakes when they were part of current government. We have witnessed Venezuelan failures…
La Paz citizens may be coming back to their senses… at last!!!
La Paz was the melting pot of Bolivia and economic center for many, many years. Its beautiful, despite the chaos that their citizens have to endure, mainly because of the political protests, strikes and blockades as it is the political center of our beloved country. In the turmoil of 2003 and 2005, La Paz consolidated…
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