La Razon’s article today has an interesting analysis that involved the TIPNIS road and the trans-oceanic corridors that cross Bolivia, as shown in the map above. Two development “visions” exist these days in Bolivia, one “traditional” as envisioned by the indigenous groups; and a “modern” one by current government. Former head of CEJIS and current Presidency…
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Jalasoft, a proud Bolivian software company!!
Bolivia should be proud to house a company like Jalasoft in Cochabamba. It intends to compete with other software creators worldwide, it has special incentive packages to recruit personnel, its location has different settings that provide a nice environment for their employees. The mind behind this is from a person who worked for Adobe Systems back in the USA,…
Bolivian TIPNIS protest UPDATE Sep 10, 2011
Heavy rain and cold weather prevented the TIPNIS marching group to continue yesterday. Today, they intend to walk 25 kilometers and reach La Embocada. Government officials went back to La Paz, they say they will come back whenever the indigenous people reconvenes them. In Yucumo, there are still some settlers (colonos) who sympathize with the…
Bolivian plane crashed: eight corpses found, one still missing
After 40 hours of search, since Aerocon flight was reported missing, crashed plane was found in an isolated place, between 10 to 15 kilometers away from Trinidad. Unfortunately, eight of the nine people on board died and one is missing, search for him continues. The remainings are being delivered to the mourning families, two of them will be expatriated…
Bolivian government will puchase two tons of gold per year
The Bolivian government intends to buy two tons of gold per year, as a precautionary measure to protect our net international reserves (RIN of the Bolivian Central Bank – BCB). The price will be internationally driven. The chart above, lists the reserves: dollars, euros, gold and DEG. The first graph shows the Gold Reserves in million dollars and the second…
Bolivia may suffer more blackouts… very soon!
The electricity reserves approached zero this week, private sector fears more blackouts over the short run. In September 7, the demand in the Wholesale Electric Market (MEM) reported 1,043 MW, when the historical maximum data reached 1,050 MW, in August 18. According to the information provided by the National Committee of Charge Dispatch (CNDC) in its website, as of…
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