Letter from Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Former President of Bolivia, 1993-97 and 2002-03, to the Financial Times, graph at the bottom from El Dia: My policies helped pave the way for Bolivia’s boom I have always trusted the Financial Times but your Big Read on Bolivia, “The limits of Evonomics” (October 9), has shaken my…
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Bolivia’s election could lead to a ruthless ‘elected dictatorship.’ But no one’s paying attention
Andres Oppenheimer writes for The Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, click here: President Evo Morales has twisted Bolivia’s constitution to allow him to run for a fourth term, despite term limits. AIZAR RALDES GETTY IMAGES Much of Latin America’s attention is focused on the Oct. 27 elections in Argentina and Uruguay. But there’s a scandalous election…
Comcipo maintains indefinite general strike in Potosí
Radio Fides reports: The meeting between the Government and the Potosinist Civic Committee (Comcipo) this morning failed to suspend the indefinite general strike in Potosí that today enters its eighth day. The president of the civic entity, Marco Antonio Pumari, told the Fides radio morning coffee program that “the indefinite general strike continues.” He explained…
Bolivian leader Evo Morales: Hero or villain?
The BL News: Bolivian leader Evo Morales: Hero or villain? President Evo Morales portrays himself as an environmental defender at the United Nations (UN) while Bolivia burns. The socialist leader does not hesitate to take the pressure off himself and blames the capitalist system for the fires that have devastated more than 4 million hectares…
Economic and geopolitical interests behind the fire in Chiquitania
El Diario reports: Congresswoman Jimena Costa The MAS Senator candidate Rogelio Mayta warns “political opportunism” in opponents of the disaster in eastern Bolivia So far in the last months, at least 3.3 million hectares burned in the Chiquitania were counted, an accident that, in the opinion of the deputy of the Democratic Unit (UD), Jimena…
Bolivia: the largest informal economy
Jimmy Ortiz writes in El Diario: Bolivia has the largest informal economy in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a working document entitled Shadow economies around the world: what have we learned in the last 20 years? In which 158 economies were studied, the country obtained a percentage of 62.3% (El…
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