Many people in Bolivia believe the absurd excuse that current Bolivia president gave regarding his irresponsible decision to expel the greatest binational donor agency ever to assist Bolivia. The “backyard” reference made by Kerry, and used by the occasional president of Bolivia to expel USAID, is completely distorted, manipulated and confuses the people of Bolivia….
Bolivian poverty, underdevelopment and lack of employment
An Editorial from El Diario: Poverty, underdevelopment and lack of employment Due to the high international prices of gas, minerals and some commodities that we export, our income in foreign currency have risen considerably compared to what happened until eight or more years ago. That kind of surplus has allowed that the country has very…
Bolivian taxes 101
Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes for Los Tiempos: Taxes The State is the common house and, as all home, need money to support itself. That is the simplest explanation for the existence of taxes or taxes that are not anything other than the payments we make the inhabitants of the common house to keep it…
Bolivians living abroad will be able to vote…
Carlos Cordero Carraffa writes for El Deber: Bolivians will vote abroad The Electoral body recently reported that for the general elections of 2014, they will expand the universe of Bolivian voters abroad. This decision, apparently innocuous, ratifies perverse mechanisms of inequality and unfairness in the electoral competition between parties and introduces the intention of favouring…
A Bolivian cynic government!
HoyBolivia.com reports: Costas: Government manages with a high degree of cynicism Governor Rubén Costas said that the national Government accuses the [Catholic] bishops in the theft of the jewels of the Virgin of Copacabana, in an attempt to cause controversy and cover the real problems of the country. “As sometimes it [the government] disorients, even…
Will justice prevail? How expensive it gets not to have a solid economic policy in Bolivia
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: A fireproof test If there is or there is no legal assurances in the country, will surely be known now, with the decision of Justice in favor of La Paz factory SOBOCE by the case of the expropriation of shares of the Chuquisaca Fancesa cement factory. The mentioned decision…
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