2021: Bolivian mining 101 – Minería boliviana 101

Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Bad grades The prestigious Fraser Institute of Canada has just delivered its report on the conditions that 77 countries in the world offer to investors interested in starting mining operations. Venezuelan businessmen did not send their reports, which prevented that country from being taken into account in this evaluation and, given…

¿Incremento salarial? – Salary increase?

Editorial, El Deber: Salary increase in the middle of the pandemic Almost as a routine every year, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) has announced that next week it will convene an expanded national meeting to define a list of requests to the national government, which highlights the demand to obtain a wage increase of 10…

Arce: es oclócrata – is an ochlocrat

Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: Behind the pandemic In the balance sheets on the economy, all countries point to the pandemic as the cause of the fall in growth indicators, but there are some that did not need the Chinese virus to enter the red figures. The list of those countries is worrying. The countries governed…

100: días – days

Editorial, El Deber: 100 days of Luis Arce President Luis Arce Catacora arrives at the emblematic account of the first one hundred days of government with few clear signs of what his five-year term will be in the economy, which is where much of the attention of the population converges because the well-being of family…

Todos contra la desigualdad – All against inequality

Editorial, El Diario: The private sector matters a lot for development It is time to agree that the extremes of the left or right have ceased to be important in the economy, that the peoples downplay them because they are retrograde positions that argued that private capital is contrary, alien, strange and counterproductive for development…