An Editorial from El Diario: Informal economy destroys the country Informal economy or for better words, illicit trade, has been since ancient times, contrary to the interests of nations. Its validity has led the best efforts, dedication to work and production to faint, placing the validity of the convictions on decline or weaken laws; finally,…
Category: Economics
Bolivia loses money when exporting minerals: Indium, antimony, niobium, bismuth and tantalum
ERBOL reports: We are the second largest producer , we noted Zapata Bolivia loses $140 million dollars per year by not taxing the Indium The head of the research department and social interaction of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and Professor of the Faculty of Chemistry, Justo Zapata said that Bolivia lost about…
Usurpation and tyranny
Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: Usurpation and tyranny The ‘Bolivarian’ regimes seem to know the address of Simon Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura: “Nothing is as dangerous as letting stay the same citizen on power for a long time. The people become accustomed to obey and he gets used to command them; that…
Coca leaves’ production replaced oranges in Yungas, cocaine business is booming!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The oranges of truth It is a pity that the Deputy Rebeca Delgado has decided to surrender to government threats for their participation in the Truth Commission. [you can watch a cartoon related to her decision and of another member of that committee, down below] This “casualty” hurts everyone…
Bolivian mining 101: In crisis due to wrongdoings of current ochlocratic gov
Los Tiempos Editorial: THE CRISIS OF THE NATIONAL MINING Judging by the results, it appears that the current mining policy is one of the worst mistakes of the present Government As if this were not bad results, after more than three years of development of the new mining law, which has its many failures at…
Bolivian gov’s promises regarding our natural gas are blunt out lies
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The gas that we do not have President Evo Morales just said that some Central American countries would be interested in buying Bolivian natural gas. A few days earlier, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera had said that he was making the trip on board of the vice-presidential plane for…
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