Los Tiempos Editorial: THE CRISIS OF THE NATIONAL MINING Judging by the results, it appears that the current mining policy is one of the worst mistakes of the present Government As if this were not bad results, after more than three years of development of the new mining law, which has its many failures at…
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Bolivia Hydrocarbon/Energy 101, under current ochlocracy…
Monica Briancon writes in Los Tiempos: How well we are I was reading a report by the Millennium Foundation, where Germán Molina notes that YPFB carries a deficit of Bs608 million, Comibol Bs218, Ende Bs747, Cartonbol Bs6, Ecebol Bs200 thousand, Aasana Bs6 million, Apos Bs4 million, with Bs138 million Emapa, Boa Bs1 million, Bs500 thousand…
Politics 101: … what is said and what ends up been done
Raul Penaranda writes in Pagina Siete: Distance between what is said and done Past Bolivian politicians were not a paragon of virtue, much less, and committed a series of contradictions between what they said and did. One offered a “moral revolution” and was involved in numerous scandals, another 500,000 jobs promised and fulfilled only 10%…
Bolivian mining conundrum…
Ivan Arias writes in Pagina Siete: Cooperatives: stop lying The mining conflict has evidenced once again (as it did with the issue of TIPNIS), the contradiction between the principles of the Constitution of the State (CPE) and real life. In this case, while we have a statist CPE and, supposedly, oriented to socialism, it collides…
Bolivian Railroads 101
Juan Carlos Zuleta writes in La Prensa: RAILWAY, PAST AND PRESENT For the geographical, topographical and population density characteristics of our country; the railway transport sector has become extremely important as a means of enabling the movement of people and exchange of goods, it “allowed” an effective integration of the country. This was prior to…
Bolivian gov wrongdoings… just plain ineptitude or is it on purpose?!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Unpaid bills It has become a habit of the current government to “discover” anomalies tolerated for years under its management, it just denounce and then give the impression that complies with the law and is very severe. A week ago, Interior Minister Carlos Romero, “denounced” that the Ichilo is…
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