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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Bolivia needs to react before it is too late!
Humberto Vacaflor writes for El Diario: To put the batteries Not of lithium, yet, because the project is very delayed, but the Government must put the batteries now, at this time. Until now it had enjoyed an economic situation generated by external factors or criminal activities. It did nothing to make the price of gas…
Bolivian investment law needs to attract foreign investment, for real!
Marco Chuquimia reports for El Deber: DRAFT LAW Private request 5 incentives on new Investment Law The draft has 29 articles and raises a new law of conciliation and arbitration to resolve processes. There will be three months for regulations and the regulatory transition. Security on the property; stability of the tax system; arbitration processes;…
Inefficiency of the forced industrialization
Armando Mendez writes in Pagina Siete: Inefficiency of the forced industrialization Interventionism and State interventionism is a fact that was firmly in the past. It began in Europe, with what is called mercantilism and dates from the 1500’s. Before in the economy, there was no per capita growth. Production increased as the population increased, equal…
Who won the gas war?
Humberto Vacaflor describes the aftermath of the so called “gas war” which, day by day, as we know more, demonstrates its violent motives which were no other to take over power, to throw a democratically elected government… and it only reflects why this and Venezuela governments fit under the ochlocracy category! Humberto Vacaflor from Siglo…
2014 Bolivian economic forecasts
Alberto Bonadona writes in Pagina Siete: Forecasts for 2014 Any prognosis that is made in the economy always will be an approach very close or very far away from what will actually happen. This obvious depends on another: of how reality actually unfold. However, economists (especially the “pundits”) love to make speculations about the near,…
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