BBC News reports: Bolivia to take water dispute with Chile to UN court Bolivian President Evo Morales has said his country will file a suit against Chile over a water dispute at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Bolivia says it owns the Silala spring in a border region and that it is not being…
Category: Mining
History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’
A great article regarding Potosi, by The Guardian: Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’ The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan or Seville….
Collapse of Bolivian exports
An Editorial from El Diario: Collapse of Bolivian exports Only last January, exports of various domestic products fell by one third in relation to the same month last year, according to worrying statistic provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the crash regarding foreign sales pertains to gas, manufacturing, minerals and agricultural products. More concretely,…
History 101: Potosi and the coins
Juan Jose Toro writes in El Deber: Potosi and the coins Potosi is known to habe been one of the most important cities of the Colony with its Cerro Rico [rich mountain]. True but insufficient. To understand what was Potosi, would have to say it was, in its time, the sum of London and New…
The exodus of Bolivian taxpayers or their relentless annihilation?!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Exodus of taxpayers Much more important than the re-re-re-election of a leader born in Orinoca, but emerged from the illegal coca of the Chapare, is the mass exodus of Bolivian companies into the informal sector. It is that this has to do with the existence of the Bolivian state….
Economic boom no longer serves as a flag to MAS
Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: Political analysts view, according to the present Economic boom no longer serves as a flag to MAS Controversy. Erika Brockman believes that the population seemed to be anesthetized and now is becoming critical. Julián Ibarra sees the breakdown of government. The considered “economic bonanza” experienced by the country, no…
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