Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: Are we a rich country? Who was the one who said to the head of the regime that we are no longer a poor country and that, therefore, the non governmental organizations (NGOs) have no place in Bolivia? Whoever he was, deserves a resounding reprieve because economic growth of…
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Bolivian legal and informal economies… along with ochlocratic rulings…
Great enlightening article that portrays our Bolivia. Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Differential Yearbook The 21st Century Newsletter has tested a novel ‘differential Yearbook’, a balance which leaves 2013 in the legal sector of the economy and also the illegal. According to the American economist Peter Andreas, to discuss economics only looking at the…
Where did they go?! corruption or plain ineptitude of current gov?
ANF reports: GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS NO INVENTORY OF TOTAL SEIZED ITEMS The annual report of the Ministry of Government does not consider assets confiscated in the departments of Potosí and Oruro. La Paz, Dec. 19 (ANF)-Government Minister Carlos Romero, recognized that to date there is no full record of all those goods seized…
Wild capitalism consolidates in Bolivia…?!
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The wild capitalism is consolidated in Bolivia While Bolivian analysts engage in empirical speculation about abstract concepts, the country’s economy advances in irrepressible form by way of capitalist development, although most is wild capitalism than a capitalism with maturity and reduces the sacrifice of laborers and workers in general….
Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York
Joseph Berger writes in The New York Times: Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York A Brooklyn flooring contractor and father of five, who was jailed in Bolivia for 18 months until the intervention of the actor Sean Penn lessened his punishment to confinement under house arrest, has been spirited…
Bolivian justice… from bad to worse… thanks to exiting ruling ochlocracy!
From http://www.hoybolivia.com Östreicher lawyer declared him as disappeared Yimmy Montaño, lawyer of Jacob Östreicher, ruled out this Monday the possibility of escape of his client and said that his client never expressed the desire to leave Bolivia because he intended to prove his innocence. “We are concerned about this situation, we have brought to the…
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