Bolivian Thoughts opinion: If this becomes a reality, Bolivia would have lost a great source of revenue! Mainly due to the ineptness of the autocrat coca caudillo. The Salar the Uyuni is where lithium can be found in huge quantity, ideal to be a source for the energy market. However, this ruling ochlocracy has lost…
Category: Economics
Milenio Foundation: The Gran Chaco plant: another Karachipampa?
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: We have the benefit to count with superb institutions like Milenio Foundation, its sound analysis gives light to what is going on with our country. Karachipampa smelter in Potosi is what we call a white-elephant project, ill designed with basic limitations to be efficient and competitive. The following analysis is part of…
Kakistocracy or Ochlocracy in Bolivia: Ministerial deficiency causing disorders
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Over the last eleven years, we have seen the best possible economic times ever in our whole history, the perfect opportunity to overcome poverty, generate sustainable employment and be competitive. What happened? Bolivia was taken by the worst kakistocracy and/or ochlocracy ever thought imaginable! At the bottom, please find a comparison between…
Bad news regarding gas revenues for Bolivia, grim future under an inept government!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: The following article expresses the economic analysis over the gas market prices for the near future … If world economic forecasts are correct, according to the Russian analysis, the gas prices will be forced down, and that is something that will hurt badly the demagogue government of the coca grower caudillo. Who…
Madidi 101: Exploring the Bolivian Jungle!
Claire Boobbyer reports for Independent: Madidi 101: Exploring the Bolivian Jungle! The recently released ‘Jungle’ biopic charts the epic survival story of an Israeli tourist who was lost for three weeks. Claire Boobbyer discovers the magic of Madidi for herself. The slender branches bounce with shrieking monkeys and barking blue-faced hoatzin, a prehistoric avian throwback. Spider, squirrel and…
Bid for Power in Bolivia Is Just Another Reach for Autocracy
Jose Miguel Vivanco and Juan Pappier report for Human Rights Watch, published in The New York Times: Bid for Power in Bolivia Is Just Another Reach for Autocracy (Buenos Aires) — President Evo Morales of Bolivia seems obsessed with staying in power. In 2016, he called a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would have…
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