The following excerpt is from an article made by Aline Quispe and published by La Razon. I urge you to read thinking not only on El Mutun’s future but as prevailing precedent that could create some sort of jurisprudence on future foreign capital investment to Bolivia. Investments that we are desperately looking after, in order…
Category: Mining
Bolivian economy and its institutional weakening – Bolivian macroeconomics 101 – July 2012
Fundacion Milenio has released another good report, No.154 dated July 13, 2012; because os its relevance, I reproduce in its entirety: The Bolivian economy and its institutional weakening The Bolivian economy continues to enjoy an economic boom that, despite the problems that have arisen in Europe and United States, maintains high prices for our exports. This…
For Bolivian entrepreneurs, reversal of mines is a bad sign for investments
Ambivalence in the speech of government officials is damaging our ability to capture foreign capital investment for years to come. At times, current government attends meetings where they invite foreign capitals to come, at other they attack capitalism and do not enforce the law, allowing for violent take overs and anarchy to rule our businesses…
Mallku Khota’s community people call for nationalization in exchange for hostages
It is plain anarchy and blackmail, our mining industry is going down the drain, this is not the way to attract foreign capital or at least intend to sell our ores. Not only those community people are wrong, so is current government for letting this happen, El Diario reports: The President of the Committee for…
El Mutun continues to remain an open question, by Milenio Foundation
The Milenio Foundation has just issued an interesting and however stressing report on El Mutun, I thought about translating just the questions they raise at the end, however, I concluded that some of you would like the whole report, so here it goes: El Mutun continues to remain an open question, No.151 – June 15,…
Bolivian Economics 101:The economic agenda, in its ‘infancy’
This is an interesting and enlightening article made by Juan Carlos Salinas Cortez for El Deber: Already five months passed since at the Social and Economic Summit in Cochabamba and promoted by the Government to ‘set the ground rules’ for the elaboration of economic and productive agenda with the private sector. However, so far the…
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