These cartoons are from 4/24/2018: El Diario shows the anti-corruption transparency offices, over the last twelve years, has lost big-time to corruption. There is not a single week that we don’t know of corrupts been jailed nor that the big-guys go to jail, instead a new case of corruption at a local, regional or central…
Category: Economics
The Brazil Bolivia Connection: Odebrecht and OAS
There is no question about how corrupt evo’s government became! He is not only a demagogue but has wasted over $160 billion dollars in the last 12 years. As pointed out in the last paragraph of the following article, is not only OAS and CAMC the source of corruption, it is more troubling to see…
Salaries of professionals fell by 20% between 2005 and 2017
People with post-graduate degrees are facing low salary offers which does not equal to their capacities … this government, specially evo is always demeaning education, he said he does not like to read, he said he can do anything and lawyers can fix that … Some of his appointees have minimal if any academic training…
Bolivian History 101: Loud, true and clear message to Chile: “There is no Silala river”
El Diario reports: Antonio Bazoberry “There is no Silala river” The researcher and expert in the study of watersheds, Antonio Bazoberry Quiroga, through his book The myth of the Silala, dismisses the Chilean thesis presented in his lawsuit against Bolivia and assures that the Silala River does not exist. This statement is based on hydraulic…
Bolivia is not Venezuela – even if its president does want to stay in power forever
Robert Albro and Michael McCarthy report for The Conversation: Bolivia is not Venezuela – even if its president does want to stay in power forever Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro are both classic Latin American strongmen. But that’s where the similarities end. Latin America’s elected leaders gather in Peru later this…
Bolivia Dares to Dream of the Sea, Again
Stratfor Worldview reports: Bolivia Dares to Dream of the Sea, Again To the victors go the spoils: In the 19th-century War of the Pacific, Chile bested its two foes, grabbing territory from both Peru and Bolivia. The defeat stung Lima but devastated La Paz, as Bolivia lost its access to the sea. Ever since, Bolivia has…
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