From the Ecologist: Development and duplicity in the case of the Chepete and El Bala dams Two proposed hydroelectric dams in Bolivia are set to create a serious socio-ecological calamity. They are emblematic of the injustices that have been a consistent feature of the Morales government. JONATHAN ELWELL investigates The decades-old developmental fantasy of using…
Category: Economics
How evo wasted unprecedented revenues! He graduates with “honors”
An excellent Editorial from El Diario [para la version en español, use el link de abajo, gracias]: More spending, less works In the 12 years of the current government, there have been more expenditures and fewer works, which shows that its three constitutional periods have been unsuccessful, much more when the country has had the…
evo’s days of his illegitimate power are reaching their end!
Pagina Siete reports: Activists: Evo has 525 days left in the mandate The Minister of the Presidency, Alfredo Rada, yesterday [August 14, 21018] highlighted the 4,587 days that Evo Morales has been in the presidential chair, as the longest mandate in the history of the country. In response, 21F activist Beto Astorga said that in…
Is the Bolivian National Institute of Statistics reporting accurately? An audit is needed!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: ECONOMY AND FINANCE Audit to the INE Private entrepreneurs want an international organization to audit the INE, beginning by reviewing the GDP growth data, on which the payment of the second Christmas bonus depends. Of course, the national authorities responded with indignation, saying that this will not be possible,…
“Lessons learned and challenges for private investment and the development of the industry”
Manuel Filomeno reports for Pagina Siete: Five obstacles hinder private investment in Bolivia For the CNI, problems such as informality, low competitiveness and productivity, and the lack of incentives play against private investment. Informality, low competitiveness and productivity, isolation, high costs of moving to formality and the lack of a clear incentive policy are some…
evo’s announcement of a second Christmas bonus payment is “irresponsible”
I strongly support Mr. Dehne’s declaration, evo is highly irresponsible! On the other hand Mr. Dabdoub’s remarks are very mild, as if he only wanted to thank this government for the ethanol’s venture … Bolivia needs strong and clear messages to the fading “leadership” of evo’s autocrat ruling. The above opinion belongs to Bolivian Thoughts….
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