El Dia: Estudio revela que Bolivia importa 200 toneladas de mercurio, 68 van a la minería aurífera Bolivia registra un incremento “exponencial” en la importación de 200 toneladas de mercurio totalmente “legal”, por la baja tasa arancelaria, de las cuales 68 toneladas van a la pequeña minería aurífera, un hecho que sucede a pesar de…
Category: Economics
Animosity against the productive elite – Animosidad contra la élite productiva
Lupe Cajias, Los Tiempos: The speeches, attitudes and threats of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora against what we can illustrate as the productive elite, which it seems they want to drown, contradicts the national objective of facing the economic crisis. It is not an ideological slogan of anger against the rich, since there are…
Why Evo? – ¿Por qué Evo?
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: In normal terms, most political leaders act according to the party, not only because the party is the basis of sustenance of their passage to power, and in some way the guarantee ballot with which they count, but because everything that you do in the administration of power and the way…
Six months of government? – Seis meses de ¿gobierno?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Today is half a year [5/8/2021] since the Government of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), elected in October 2020, assumed the reins of the State, and as we verified three months ago in this same space, when They were fulfilling the first 100 days of the presidency of Luis Arce, their actions…
Galloping corruption! – ¡Corrupción galopante!
Editorial, El Diario: Official inefficiency accelerates corruption As unemployment has “face for everything,” it is said that having well-paid jobs in the informal economy is the easiest. Every position has “officials ready for anything” (and they queue at the doors of the boss). This has always been a prevailing reality at all times because, from…
Unemployment – Desempleo
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The worrying unemployment figures Bolivian workers have arrived on May 1 in the middle of the worst economic crisis caused by the pandemic and with the highest unemployment rate in recent years, which as of February reaches 8.93%, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). According to the Millennium…
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