What is the intention to live year around with strikes and blockades? this is not the times of getting out of a dictatorship; nor is it the attempts to grow politically like current president and his political party did before assuming power six years ago. Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos excerpts follow: Blockades, a collective…
Category: Business
Relentless coca… cocaine production???
These two cartoons portray the way coca crop and its “processed products” have an impact on our lives… This is from El Dia (11/24/11), and it also relates to the TIPNIS struggle for survival: the defeated (no road through TIPNIS) powerful coca-grower/intercultural person (new “marketing” sociological name to brand some of the supporters of this…
Blackouts are in order: Santa Cruz suffers the most!
El Deber reports: The main reason for today’s incoming cuts, from 14: 00, is due to non operation of the transmission line(high voltage) between Carrasco (Cochabamba) and Arboleda in Buenavista, operated by the company ISA-Bolivia. This line will join maintenance, according to the National Committee on energy emission (CNDC). There will also be unavailability of some generating…
Keynes would disapprove current Bolivian government… Friedman would have a sad a smile over Bolivian’s reality
These are the conclusions that Fundacion Milenio presented on September 2011, issue No. 23; the lead writer is Ivan Arias Duran It is an analysis of the State owned & created-under-this-government companies (full Spanish study is attached at the end of this post). This research was possible with the collection of official information from public…
Bolivian bilateral investment treaties
La Razon published yesterday interesting information regarding the existing differences among foreign public or private contracts with the Bolivian State. The settlement of differences is done at international forums like International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Tribunal in the Hague and the Chamber of Commerce of Paris and Stockholm, among others. The…
Bolivias loses $55 million dollars in taxes…
La Razon reports that due to tax evasion and purchase of pirate/illegal software, Bolivia loses around $55 million dollars per year… An estimate provided by Microsoft Bolivia’s general manager, Alberto Mariaca. Although, Mariaca reports, that purchase of legal software is growing, around $100 million dollars (not specified in the article below, the time span for…
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