Pagina Siete reports about the struggle of the TIPNIS and CIDOB rights against current government’s policies: Yesterday, the IV National Commission of the CIDOB ratified the realization of the IX indigenous march from April 25th, despite the fact that the Brazilian company OAS will cease construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road through…
Category: Social Unrest
Illegal settlers invaded private productive land in Santa Cruz
El Dia reports over 50,000 hectares being taken over illegally: Oil producers are in emergency because more than 400 people have taken 50,000 productive hectares on the outskirts of the community of Chihuahua, the municipality of Cuatro Cañadas, and fear that if the Government does not intervene any time [soon], there will be a confrontation…
In six years, 20 presidential accusations against USA
Current Bolivian presidential hate to USA is no news and certainly goes in line with his populist, demagogue style; Pagina Siete reports: The Government introduced from 2006 until last month [March 2012] at least 20 complaints against United States for conspiracy against President Evo Morales; financing the opposition and indigenous protests; and terrorism. Pagina Siete…
Week of April 9, 2012 with at least three strikes, blockades
Bolivia continues to fall down the cracks, there are at least three separate negative measures that impact on our economic lives and pushes us more down to the ground of inefficiency and to be less competitive, Los Tiempos reports: The Medical Association, the Confederation of [public service] drivers and the workers; union: Central Obrera Boliviana…
A tale of two failures: EvoNOMICS and political INvoLUTION
Current government started saying they were going to give academic lectures on economics, they keep pushing with the de-dollarization of our economy, thus generating worst opportunities to our industry and welcoming smuggled goods (used and new) into our markets. This cartoon is from El Diario, March 12, 2012. You can see how Chinese merchandise is threatening the…
Are blockades a result of government’s in-EFFICIENCY?
It is not the first time that this government’s political party and current president are confronted with their past. A past full of strikes and blockades. This government has on average the most blockades ever as any other president in the history of the Republic of Bolivia, and certainly the new state they created. The…
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