Laura Millan Lombrana, Jonathan Gilbert, and Sabrina Valle report for Bloomberg: South America’s only successful populist government has triumphed largely thanks to the natural gas it exports to its neighbors. But that may soon be changing. Contracts with Bolivia’s biggest customers — Brazil and Argentina — are in the process of being renegotiated at a time when…
Category: Social Unrest
After failures to attract investments, what?
An Editorial from El Diario: The government, with a view to obtaining investments, on both the part of United States, England, Germany and Canada, organized meetings with businessmen and capitalists in each capital of those countries and tried to encourage them and give them assurances so that they invest financial capital, technology and human capital…
February 2019: If traveling by road in Bolivia, beware of this …
Pagina Siete reports: ABC reports eight closed sections in the country The Bolivian Road Administration (ABC) reported over the weekend that eight road stretches were closed to traffic due to landslides and floods. “The first section is Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey, which at first has suffered several landslides at the height of what is Choro Alto, Choro…
US senators urge Evo not to be re-elected
EFE/Washington reports via Pagina Siete: “It is important that all parties respect the Constitution of Bolivia,” said Senator Ted Cruz. A bipartisan group of senators from the United States yesterday [02/02/2019] presented a legislative resolution calling on Bolivian President Evo Morales to respect the limits of presidential terms and not run for the presidential elections…
Road advances affecting indigenous peoples of Tipnis
A necessary Editorial from El Diario: Indigenous peoples living in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) are concerned that the construction of the San Ignacio de Moxos-Villa Tunari highway continues, including with the construction of bridges; they add that these works seriously harm them and that 65 populations will be affected not…
Bolivia Corruption Rank [under evo, the lowest ever, as expected!]
Pagina Siete reports, excerpts follow: … Bolivia obtained a score of 29 out of 100, where zero is very corrupt and 100 is very transparent, the country is ranked 132. … https://www.paginasiete.bo/economia/2019/1/30/bolivia-obtiene-su-peor-calificacion-sobre-percepcion-de-corrupcion-de-ultimos-siete-anos-207500.html Trading Economist reports: Bolivia is the 132 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by…
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