Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: The announced presidential debate will certainly show that the candidates do not have proposals capable of showing that they are aware of the size of the crisis. The country needs to be reinvented, as if the accident and implausible discovery made by Diego Huallpa in 1545 or the discovery of oil…
Category: Economics
Moody’s cuts Bolivia to B2
Daniel Bases, Latin Finance: Ratings agency cites erosion of fiscal and currency reserve buffers, weak hydrocarbon sector Moody’s on Tuesday cut Bolivia’s foreign currency sovereign credit rating further deeper into junk territory, reducing the rating to B2 from B1, citing diminishing fiscal and foreign currency reserves. At the same time the rating was lowered, the…
Ni olvido, ni perdón – Neither forget nor forgiveness
Editorial, El Diario: How much damage was done and pretends to be forgotten When Mr. Morales was the winner of the December 2005 elections and assumed the Presidency of the Republic, there was a good deal of satisfaction in the country because it was assumed that there would be important changes for the benefit of…
COVID-19 impactará el sistema educativo de América Latina durante décadas
Andres Oppenheimer, el Nuevo Herald: Cuando me preguntan si América latina saldrá pronto de su actual crisis económica, suelo responder que el daño económico causado por la pandemia del coronavirus probablemente sera relativamente corto, pero el daño educativo podría durar décadas. A corto plazo, es probable que las economías latinoamericanas comiencen a recuperarse pronto. Las…
Pacto con el diablo – Pact with the devil
Oscar Aguilar, Los Tiempos: Pact with the devil Thanks Evo, the day before yesterday (8/31/2020) with a loud and clear voice you said that the President of the Entrepreneurs (CEPB) “offered you support before being overthrown.” Some grassroots entrepreneurs were sure that our parent entity had lost its entity, others suspected that some 14 years…
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