Yuri Neves reports for InSight Crime: Officials within the agency entrusted with protecting Bolivia’s forests falsified data and provided documents legitimizing the illegal harvesting of timber, a scheme that occurs throughout South America. René Noel Sivila Céspedes is accused of signing more than 2,096 documents that allowed for the clearing of protected areas while he was the…
Category: Economics
Princess Mako attends anniversary ceremony in Bolivia
Japan Times reports; SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA – Princess Mako on Wednesday attended a commemoration in Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, to mark the 120th anniversary of the arrival of Japanese immigrants to the South American country. “I express my sincere respect for Japanese immigrants and their descendants who have won trust in Bolivian society and become a…
Indebtedness of the country during bonanza
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario, cartoon showing evo’s wastefulness is from Pagina Siete: The considerable economic income that favored and disposed the Bolivian Plurinational State during the thirteen recent years and that were administered by the governing party, the MAS, led by President Evo Morales Ayma, reached an astonishing 45.5 billion dollars, according to…
Authoritarianism prevents Morales from accepting debate
El Diario reports: According to Carlos Mesa The candidate for president by the Citizen Community (CC) alliance, Carlos Mesa, said that the authoritarian stance of Evo Morales makes him refuse to debate and go to the dirty war, in addition to fake news. “Evo Morales, the debate that you reject, reflects your authoritarian spirit. He…
the Mother of All Bolivian Revenues is falling down the cracks … tks to evo!
Humberto Vacaflor accurately describes the misfortune of having the lousiest government of all times: the Mother of All Bolivian Revenues is falling down the cracks … evo has destroyed our best economic times in history, ever! THE COLUMN CONFINED BY THE MAZISMO YPFB is bankrupt, like the country, according to Leonardo Coutinho. “Roll up your…
Our country with the highest fiscal deficit
An Editorial from El Diario, graph below is from Pagina Siete: There should be serious concern in the economic authorities for the fact that our country has, ostensibly, surpassed the amount of the fiscal deficit that implies -8.1 percent, followed by Brazil with -7.1 percent; Argentina with -5 percent and Uruguay and Colombia reach a…
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