Bolivia loses 11% of GDP due to maritime confinement

El Diario reports: Anual average Bolivian exporters must face a cost 33.2% higher than the regional average TRANSPORTATION EXPLAINS MAJOR LOSSES INCURRED BY BOLIVIA FOR ITS CENTENARY LANDLOCKED. A work done by economist Rodrigo Burgoa found that the maritime enclosure that Bolivia suffers since the invasion of its coast in February 1879 has a negative…

7 thousand hectares in Bolivia affected by adverse weather events

Fresh Plaza reports, picture from Los Tiempos: 300 hectares of banana have been lost The department’s tropical region has been affected by heavy rains and the southern cone by droughts. According to reports, both natural phenomena have damaged almost 10 thousand hectares of cultivation: 7 thousand hectares of fruit trees have been affected in Chapare,…

Bolivia has the second most expensive mobile internet

El Deber reports: A global study conducted by the price comparison website Cable.co.uk revealed that in Bolivia much more is paid per gigabyte (GB) used in mobile devices, compared to the rest of the countries in South America. The average price of 1 GB of mobile data costs US $ 8.51 in the country, while…

Bolivia’s Problem Is Macroeconomics, Not Socialism [evo is the F problem! with his lies, corruption, incompetence!]

Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo has manipulated macroeconomic statistics, has destroyed the INE, inserting acolytes that will tamper data and use other “indicators” to produce the populist mirage … After 13 years of absolute control of ALL State powers, after receiving loan forgiveness from the international community, after extraordinarily high international prices on all our commodity…