This cartoon portrays the protest walk of the TIPNIS indigenous people, La Prensa, August 25, 2011. The “government” says: “beware, almost all of them are heavily armed with cell phones!!” in reference to the phone calls that the government said took place between some of those marching leaders and officials of the US Embassy in…
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Bolivian TIPNIS update, August 24, 2011, 22:12 hrs
Bolivian government has decided to send for the fourth time, a high level negotiation team to meet with the TIPNIS protest march in Puerto San Borja. The minister of Public Works, Wálter delgadillo; the minister for Productive Development and Plural Economy, Teresa Morales; along with vice-ministers for Rural Development and Environment. http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/economia/20110824/gobierno-envia-nueva-comision-ministerial-para-iniciar-el-dialogo-con_139007_284728.html The government intends to discuss…
Standard & Poor’s gave Bolivia a B, B+ grade, BUT…
Standard & Poor’s qualified the perspectives for Bolivia as “positive” and had given a B+ and a B, which are highly dependent on expected investments in the mining and gas sectors, as also on future “political tensions”, according to ANF. Standard & Poor’s warns that “if political tensions were to resurrect and would cause economic uncertainty,…
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