This cartoon is from El Diario, October 23, 2011; current Bolivian president trapped! He is weaving a white flag in an act of surrender. On one end a huge crowd representing not only the TIPNIS and other indigenous people, but most of Bolivian citizens in support of the indigenous territory and the national park. At…
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Bolivian potato or potatoe?
It doesn’t matter how you say it, it matters Bolivia has plenty of it!!! Kudos to the National Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Innovation (INIAF), and to those Cochabamba producers who for the first time, planted 1,555 potato varieties that exist in Bolivia. To preserve and protect the genetic patrimony of Bolivian tubercles. Around 60 people, among small producers, INIAF technicians and local authorities,…
Bolivian inflation figures, as of Sep 2011
The Bolivian Foreign Commerce Institute (IBCE) has released its biweekly electronic bulletin Nº 71 – Bolivia, October 20, 2011. Inflation figures follows: Data is for 2011, January – September; percentage variation: monthly, cumulative and last 12 months. Source Bolivian Central Bank; chart made by IBCE; (p) preliminary data. This cartoon is from El Diario (Oct 17, 2011)….
At last! some positive & promissing news for Bolivia
These days we are witnessing the struggle of a Bolivian indigenous group fighting for their rights and territory, failed Judiciary “elections”. In this post I intend to look at another important issue: entrepreneurship as a means to overcome poverty. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), has as its goal to make high quality information on global entrepreneurial, as such they…
CBN is a great and proud Bolivian company, 125 years old!!
Today, Pagina Siete made a positive and excellent report, among the usual “negative and pessimistic” issues that lately devastates our beautiful Bolivia. The National Bolivian Brewery (CBN) is going to celebrate its 125 years old on October 20, 2011. It is incredible and amazing to reach such maturity in a country where very few companies even reach…
What does Bolivia prefer?: Uncontrolled fires or heavy rain?
This cartoon is from La Razon, Oct 14, 2011. As of the last three days in beautiful Santa Cruz and most parts of Bolivia, there is a lot of rain (see below for the link of an earlier post here regarding La Niña). The cartoon shows heavy rain hitting on those who are supposed to control de fires…
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