Bolivian Food 101 – A culinary tour of Bolivia: cooking with altitude

I found this excellent article through a friend in FB, superbly written and which I reproduce in its entirety: From Ed Stoker, The Guardian: A culinary tour of Bolivia: cooking with altitude Bolivia is hardly known for its foodie scene but that hasn’t stopped the founder of one of the world’s best restaurants opening an…

Status of Bolivian cotton production, we need to improve fast!

We had great oportunities with Bolivian cotton until we blew it, back in the 70s… since then we go up and down… so unfortunate, so true… however, it is time to take appropriate action, for current gov to issue sound public policies that can give some certainty to private producers, and then step back as…

Great challenge for current Bolivian central gov! Will they have the guts?

Carlos Federico Valverde Bravo writes for El Deber, his wonderful proposal should be accepted by current central Bolivian government. From the very top to the bottom, the MAS regards themselves as the owners of the voters’ preferences… they always claim that there is no such opposition… well, I like to see them accepting Carlos’ sound…

Exceptional room for improvement: Bolivian productive businesses!

El Diario reports a striking reality! Why is that we have very little numbers of productive businesses?! Initial answer targets weak and awkward public policies as they do not do what they are supposed to: promote investment on job and value-added creation! Two of every thousand companies are large and productive In Bolivia, two of…