El Deber, Guider Arancibia Guillen reports something really odd… In the trunk of a station wagon, a man was carrying 204 kilos of cocaine in mold type bricks, all wore the nazi logo. The report was confirmed by the head of the special force of fight against the drug trafficking (FELCN), Fernando Amurrio; after some…
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Agriculture 101, cotton in the rise
El Deber, Henrry Ugarte report about cotton and other agricultural produce: The chart: Evolution of the cotton production; the first chart refers to planted area; second is for production; below the yield and base price graphs. Figures are from 1999 to 2009. It is still far away the possibility to match the glorious times as…
Insufficient natural gas to meet market demands
El Dia published on December 8, 2011 information about the Bolivian supply of natural gas being insufficient for projects like El Mutun (iron): [You can see the total supply in the colored ‘waves’, representing the gas fields. The line on top of all is the total demand and the down pointing red arrows represents the…
Deforestation and Bolivia holds unfortunate 4th place…
Today, I will introduce Maplecroft, who is the author of the Deforestation Index 2012, from their website: Introducing Maplecroft As the global landscape evolves, it is imperative to navigate, manage and monitor the political, economic, social and environmental risks that affect new growth opportunities for business, especially in emerging markets. Maplecroft’s Global Risks Portfolio and…
Aerocon’s survivor, Minor Vidal is the personality of the year
El Deber’s end of the year awards has chosen well, Minor Vidal is awarded, an article written by Roberto Navia, follows: Minor, strengthened by an award Minor Vidal, the sole survivor of Aerocon’s plane, returned to fly. In his Office in Trinidad received the news that he is the personality of the year, he thanks…
Remittances help consolidate 89 entrepreneurial initiatives
Pagina Siete reports on a very important element for the economics of Bolivian households who have part of their families working outside our country: A total of 89 business that generated at the same time 254 jobs are the result of the implementation of the migratory model of voluntary people coming back; an initiative made…
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