An Editorial from El Diario: State Capitalism in danger of failure Specific indications reveal that the economic system of state capitalism which is systematically applied in Bolivia under the current regime, is on an accelerated path of decline and failure. In particular the so-called public enterprises, are incurring in significant deficits and may even fall…
Category: Economics
No fair solution to the assaults on land tenure in Santa Cruz
En Editorial from El Diario: No fair solution to the assaults on land tenure in Santa Cruz In over thirty cattle farms in Santa Cruz, they are vainly expecting the authorities to compel on the assailants, to return those properties that vandalism grabbed, without respecting other people’s property or the rights of others; people who,…
Bolivia needs to use its trade preferences with the EU
El Diario reports: Bolivia untapped European markets without paying tariffs The European Community granted 9,000 exemptions for the export of Bolivian products. IBCE President believes we should make the most of the facilities offered by the region. Bolivia, like other nations in the region, does not properly take advantage of the 9,000 franchises granted by…
Another unsolved corruption case of current central government: Chinese barges!
An Editorial from Pagina Siete: The scandal of the barges continues Pagina Siete reported in 2012 that the Bolivian government had paid $26 million dollars upfront for the purchase of 16 barges and two Chinese tugboats for the use in the country’s Amazonian rivers. After it was also reported that they had paid and additional…
Politics 101: … what is said and what ends up been done
Raul Penaranda writes in Pagina Siete: Distance between what is said and done Past Bolivian politicians were not a paragon of virtue, much less, and committed a series of contradictions between what they said and did. One offered a “moral revolution” and was involved in numerous scandals, another 500,000 jobs promised and fulfilled only 10%…
Bolivia Freedom of the press 101: not under current Bolivian ochlocratic regime
Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber: Uncontrolled by a Remote Control Must see the reaction it caused in the Government the publication Remote Control, the book in which Raul Penaranda confirms buying media by people close to the leadership of the MAS, operating as parastatal media. That is, act as governmental, but are private and not…
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