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…
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Bolivia 101: Human Rights Practices for 2013
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 Bolivia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bolivia is a constitutional, multi-party republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. In December 2009, in a process deemed free and fair by international observers, citizens re-elected as president Evo Morales Ayma, leader of the…
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….
Bolivia to have a new steel factory! About time!!!
Henrry Ugarte reports in El Deber: Las Lomas invests U.S. $ 10 million in steel factory The plant will serve domestic demand, will compete with foreign production, in 2015 will reach its maximum capacity of 36,000 tons of solid bars . The sector is satisfied. The business group Las Lomas Ltd. yesterday [2/8/14] put into…
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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