Gas, strikes and names… in short

Brazil, Chile and Argentina are above Bolivia in terms of proven “retrievable” reserves of natural gas, an energy US agency reports. Also states that since there are too many regions worldwide with natural gas, that the other type of expected reserves are no longer interesting to track down. So less traceable means fewer opportunities to…

Reengineering police. Use of our reserves

There is ongoing debate over pros and cons of autonomy. For the last five years, autonomy in Bolivia is synonym of trouble, separatism, solution, opportunity, sedition, way of life and many more. It has become a problem on top of poverty, drugs, pollution and still there is no light seen, the tunnel is tortuous. This…

Good news for Bolivia!!

Finally a piece of good news for Bolivia! The company that operates a larger portion of El Mutun mine (iron mineral, border Santa Cruz with Brazil), Jindal Steel & Power reported the first shipment of 260 thousand metric tons of iron concentrates to China. For centuries Bolivia was known as a highland mining country who…

Need to improve ourselves

This week, Bolivia has agreed to cooperate with Brazil and the USA on drug enforcement operations. Relations between Bolivia and the USA are undergoing its worst relationship ever; not even under Garcia-Mesa government they were so tight and precarious. The DEA was expelled from Bolivia, the American Ambassador was asked to leave; only consular activities…

Fine tuning

Big thanks to all of you that have been reading these lines. Our initial purpose was accomplished, to make more public the events that shape Bolivia in this flat world. There is no more power to those who just withhold information, we can and will continue to communicate, to echo our mistakes, our successes. We’ve…

Business opportunities in Bolivia

Are we using mobile phones in an effective way? There are countries in Central America that started using their cellular phones like credit/debit cards. That tool was built to support SMEs and those micro informal entrepreneurs that can not access regular banking alternatives to credit and financing. Of an estimated population of 10.4 million people,…