Carlos Miranda writes in Pagina Siete: SPEAKING OF ENERGY Good buyer, but bad payer Argentina was our first buyer of natural gas in large volumes and for long-term. YPFB inherited that contract with fixed prices. As soon took over that condition changed. Argentina refused to agree on a formula for automatic settings. They preferred to…
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Under the presidency of the coca grower: Bonanza, waste and poverty
Wilfredo Ramirez writes in El Diario: Bonanza, waste and poverty After 9 years in power, the plurinational Government was unable to correct its deficiencies. By their nonsense or “gaffes” that blush Bolivian society and seriously compromise its administration, the ship of state runs the risk of capsize at any moment, before continuing social conflict of…
Bolivia History 101: Chaco war and its consequences
Jaime Martinez writes in El Diario: Chaco War and its consequences The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay began on June 15, 1932 and finished first with an armistice on June 14, 1935, and a peace treaty on July 21, 1938. In that contest died about 50 thousand people in the Bolivian side, and about…
Another Bolivian gov accomplishment? “Entire populations engaged in smuggling”
Miguel Angel Melendres reports for El Deber: DIRECTOR OF AHN Gary Medrano: “Entire populations engaged in smuggling” The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) ensures that controls as never before, by the former Superintendency, the ‘downstream’ and ‘upstream’ of the energy chain. Searching to tackle fuel smuggling that goes abroad. Former military and ANH director for more…
The exploitation of non-renewable resources under current Bolivian gov
An Editorial from El Diario: The exploitation of non-renewable resources A picture of mining, hydrocarbons and “industrialization” shows no results as positive as we would like, so the bonanza disseminated by government spokesmen would be in question. In connection with tin – traditional source of income of the country things are not going well. Huanuni…
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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