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…

Bolivian presidential elections: Following the Venezuela example… UNITE!!!

Estefany Claros Aldana reports for El Dia: They will be the Democrat Social Movement Opponents gather in Sucre to create a party Elections. Unidad Nacional [National Unity, UN] and Movimiento Sin Miedo [Fearless Movement, MSM] leaders did not attend. The ruling party ensures that there is no candidate who stand up to Morales. Opponents of…

Bolivia’s San Calixto Observatory for the last 100 years!

Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: San Calixto Observatory, 100 years taking the pulse to the Earth Science institution is world-renowned for its studies in seismology, meteorology and astronomy. Shortly, will held its centenary. Its creation in 1913, was a milestone. It was a momentous shift from knowledge about the coming land of stories and…