What do we have in common with Cuba, Iran and North Korea? take a guess!

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF and in Spanish GAFI) is a very reputable institution and has been monitoring our fairly new “economy,” El Deber reports: Bolivia and Cuba remain without complying with the norms against money-laundering Bolivia and Cuba are on the list of countries that do not meet international standards against money laundering…

Let’s show support to TIPNIS, February 16, 2012

Stakeholders must show support to the indigenous owner’s of the TIPNIS territory as well as to the integrity of this and ALL National Parks! Current Bolivian government is literally playing with the Constitution, laws and other forms of tampering and jeopardizing the self-determination and indigenous rights, let alone the preservation we must keep of our…

Bolivian bad weather and road conditions, February 2012

Despite losing half of our territory since we became an independent nation, we still have a large territory; traveling from the highlands down to the Amazon basin implies rough and uneven terrain, it is hard to build a solid road, let alone maintaining them in good condition. This year, reports say that the rainy season…

Unbelievable and irresponsible presidential remarks… February 8, 2012

I am certainly flabbergasted and looked twice in Los Tiempos website… and it was true; those presidential remarks do not only undermine his own presidential term, but authority and laws that are supposed to keep us at peace and like citizens from a nation in this 21st century… are being thrown down the toilet. For…

Current Bolivian government is the MOST CONFLICTIVE in history…

MIlenio Foundation has issued on February 3, 2012 their report No. 132 which demonstrates how current government has become the most conflicting in Bolivian history. I am not surprised, as current president’s appearance in Bolivian politics started with the infamous blockades in the Chapare since the times he was just the leader of the Chapare…

Bolivian state-owned enterprises’ performance and competitiveness??

As it could have predicted and like it happened in the old USSR, actual Cuba and former China, the performance of the state-owned companies who are “the pride” of current government’s policy, Pagina Siete reports… Nearly two years of the commencement of its operations, the income generated by State-owned strategic enterprises Lacteosbol, Bolivian company of…