BBC reports, listen by clicking the photo: The Salar de Uyuni is a stunning pristine salt flat high in the Andes – it is also the world’s biggest lithium deposit, worth many billions of dollars. Ed Butler asks whether this as yet untapped resource will prove a blessing or a curse for the people of…
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Bolivia: increased poverty – aumento de la pobreza
El Diario reports: In recent years INE data update reveals increased poverty Extreme poverty increased to 12.9% and the poverty situation to 37.2% In recent years, poverty and extreme poverty have increased in the country. The update of the data on the basic food basket, carried out by the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals this…
Great scrap metal auction – Gran remate de chatarra
Humbeto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Great scrap metal auction MAS has left very good lessons for the country. A long list of things that should not be done for the world, never again. It has left an impressive amount of useless industrial equipment, bought only by the interest of the kickback, or by other…
Alliance for employment and production – Alianza por el empleo y la producción
Jimmy Ortiz writes in El Deber: Alliance for employment and production The economic and social consequences that the Coronavirus crisis has left us, will have to be faced among all. The fall in GDP in Bolivia, by 5.9%, will be the worst in national history. The world expects a 5.2% drop, which will mean “the…
Informality and resilience in the pandemic – Informalidad y resiliencia en la pandemia
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: Informality and resilience in the pandemic In Bolivia the development pattern has always been primary exporter and it seems that it will continue to be; all bets on industrialization have failed. The mentality of Bolivians, of the political authorities, of businessmen and of the popular sectors is extractivist, together…
The War of the Pacific (Not World War II) Is the Conflict You Never Heard Of
Peter Suciu reports for The National Interest: Dust your history book off. It isn’t uncommon for wars to result from territorial disputes. Land has long been a motivating factor in what causes nations to take up arms, but in the annals of military history rarely would powers go to war to control a coastal strip…
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