Mauricio Vasquez reports for El Deber: The Minister of Economy estimates a growth of 2.6% by 2020 The authority, which was on Saturday at EL DEBER Radio, said the transition government will guarantee the exchange rate and the payment of bonds. In addition, he said that the inflation of this year will not be high…
Category: Economics
The economic heritage of MAS – La herencia económica del MAS
Alberto Bonadona writes in Pagina Siete: The economic heritage of MAS I cannot find a single project that, in the long 13 years and nine months of the MAS government, can qualify it as successful. Not even the Orinoca museum and, of course, not the road built to reach that population. The museum was already…
Bolivia’s farmers criticize Morales, fight centralization
AFP reports fro France 24: Montero (Bolivia) (AFP) Bolivian dairy farmer Jose Roca’s blue eyes glow with anger when he talks about indigenous ex-president Evo Morales and his supporters. “They call us racists, separatists, all the bad adjectives are for us,” he says. With his 500 cows and 250 acres of land, Roca is a…
Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste [BT: great piece, accurate reading]
Ryan C. Berg reports for National Review, photo at the end from the internet: Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the…
What happened with evo? – Qué pasó con evo?
Andres Gomez writes in Pagina Siete: Why did the majority of the people was pissed off against Evo? Because he treats Bolivians as if they were his coca growers from the Cochabambino tropics. Because he uses the assets of the Bolivians as if they were things from his chaco where he sows coca. Because he…
Bolivian bonanza is gone … Fitch Ratings forecast are not encouraging
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Deber: Fitch Ratings forecasts 2.8% growth rate for Bolivia in 2020 The international rating agency maintains the negative economic outlook it had released in June. In addition, the recovery is uncertain due to the fall in the volume of gas exports up to -22% and the fall in international reserves…
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