From the editorial page of El Dia: About telephone companies and insecurity What we Bolivians came to find out now. It is now known that the responsible for the insecurity in the country are two private telephone, for allegedly not cooperating in the investigation of the kidnappings and other serious crimes. The Government has been…
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What is and should be the role of the Bolivian Army?
El Deber’s editorial: Democracy and armed forces What Bolivia currently needs the least are the shocks affecting its institutional framework. Isn’t that precisely the nation is respecting rigorously its rules, much less. On the contrary, we know that there is a clear process of chaos and deterioration in the country’s institutions. What is serious is,…
The Bolivian economy as of August 2013
El Diario reports: The Bolivian economy as of August 2013 GROWTH: The growth rate of Bolivian GDP, as of June 2013 reached 6.5%. Meanwhile, the growth rate of the GDP from the manufacturing industry came to the 4.21% (March, 2013), according to – Macroeconomic Monitor -, the National Chamber of Industries [CNI]. INFLATION: 2013 inflation as…
TIPNIS ongoing ordeal thanks to current Bolivia central government…
An interesting editorial by El Diario: TIPNIS peasants drama continues The drama lived by the peasants of the indigenous territory and Isiboro – Secure National Park (Tipnis) and because of that, all the Bolivian population continues to suffer. While these peasants have the support, understanding and moral support of the entire population of the country,…
Double standards are recurrent under this coca growing government…
This is an excellent editorial from El Diario: Double ethical standards about coca The current Government of the country apparently has double ethics in relation to the production and cultivation of the coca leaf. Indeed, on the one hand announces that it is dedicated to eradicate large areas of the bush, while, on the other…
Why Brazil “allows” current Bolivian gov bravado?
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Dilma, Evo, hatreds and OAS On May 1, 2006, Dilma Rousseff was the Minister of Energy of Lula da Silva and received a bucket of cold water from the spectacle of ‘nationalization’ offered by the new Government of Evo Morales in the San Alberto field. She came to Bolivia…
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