Current Bolivian central government does exactly the opposite to its “political discourse”, the so-called environment protector is aiming at the destruction of our forest. A good Editorial from El Diario: Is Bolivia returning to colonial depredation? About ten years ago, several patriotic citizens denounced the Mutún iron ore deposit was being exploited by the Brazilian…
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Bolivia’s “bonanza” in the verge of fading out…
An Editorial from Los Tiempos: TOWARD THE END OF THE BONANZA All data indicate that we are witnessing the end of a boom cycle, so that urgent steps are needed to break the fall. After more than eight years, during which the good news on economic, followed one after another, to account for one of…
Bolivia’s naive foreign policy
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Naive foreign policy Bolivia now has deteriorated relations with USA, Brazil, Argentina and, one might say, also Peru, for the suspension of the presidential meeting that was to take place last week. The U.S. Charge d’affaires [DCM], Harry Mammott, just left for his country “for personal reasons”, which means…
Bolivia: 2014 Index of Economic Freedom
By The Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal: Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 48.4, making its economy the 158th freest in the 2014 Index. Its overall score is 0.5 point better than last year, with notable improvements in investment freedom and trade freedom offsetting declines in business freedom, fiscal freedom, and government spending….
Bolivian gov’s demagogue, not nationalization but purchase!
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: Nationalization or purchase? That of recovering the companies for the people is becoming for us, a very expensive activity, and each May 1st or such emblematic date of the MAS, we must tremble because the usual ‘nationalization’, which are not another thing that purchases of foreign companies, which becomes…
Bolivian gov’s wrongdoings that WE have to pay!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Debts you have to pay For the purposes of transnational corporations, you could say that a revolution is radical indeed when their leaders refuse to pay compensation for the nationalizations that make. Cuba, for example, did not want to pay compensation and has ignored the international courts that failed…
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