Bolivia will protect its writers!!

A good piece of news, our writers will be protected and reading encouraged! From El Deber: Deputies approved the book draft law The [Lower] Chamber [of the National Assembly, former Congress] decided to support unanimously. The law that will be enacted in April, expected on the 23rd, day of the book. The Chamber of Deputies…

12 year-old kid wins national Story contest!!

There is great future for Antonio Javier Chavez, congrats and welcome to The Hall of Bolivian Fame!! From HoyBolivia.com: 12 years old kid wins national Story Contest Antonio Javier Chávez won first place in a literary contest in which 131 authors participated, many of them consecrated authors and that doubled or tripled his age. The…

La Merced catholic church robbed in Potosi

As I said in an earlier post, Bolivia’s going downhill, no employment generation, anarchy growing all over, narcotraffick are triggering theft and crime, this time the beautiful La Merced Church suffered a robbery… From El Potosi newspaper and printed in Los Tiempos: IT IS ESTIMATED THAT WAS STOLEN AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN HALF A MILLION…

Insecurity and unemployment… the jewels of current gov’s crown!

Today, I have the sad and powerless duty to show current Bolivian central government’s most notorious contribution to Bolivian lifestyle: From El Diario: The insecurity grows as unemployment for the last five years The estimates reveal that crime, crimes against persons and private property rose by 78% in recent years. The insecurity has become the…

Bolivian nationalizations like Mallku Khota are useless!!!

Current Bolivian government likes to pose as populist, socialist, lover and protector of mother earth and other useful demagogue poses… however, that does little to bring food to the Bolivian table. Mallku Khota was taken over by force by a group of individuals who thought anarchy would pay off and that current government was gone…