Pagina Siete reports: Just 13.5% of the staff was academically trained Only 24 of 177 Foreign Ministry diplomats are professional DATA as recorded on the lists of the central service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials with hierarchical positions are not career diplomats. Only 13.5% of the specialized personnel of the Ministry of foreign…
Remittances to Bolivia Outpace Investment by 2-1
From Remittances to Bolivia Outpace Investment by 2-1 LA PAZ – Bolivia received nearly $1.1 billion in remittances last year, more than twice the $507 in foreign direct investment going to the Andean nation, an economist with the Inter-American Development Bank said on Monday. The IDB’s Omar Zambrano said that money sent home by emigrants…
Current Bolivian piracy 101: a way of life that reproduces…
Are we resembling Somalia? Can we improve our living conditions or at least revert this??! El Deber reports: Piracy, a way of life which are reproduced Smuggling. There are 1,500 uniformed in Challapata. They seized 70 vehicles ‘Parrots’ are spies who warn the smugglers when troops of the Operating Customs Control (COA) are approaching. If…
Bolivian Gabriela Flores (Kirah Design) wins a Cartier award!!!
This is great and proud news for this Sunday! After the violence in Challapata, San German and stupid and useless remarks from current president to the US, this is certainly what we need! Pagina Siete reports: Gabriela Flores received a statuette and $20,000 A Bolivian won the Cartier Award between thousand entrepreneurs INITIATIVE she founded…
Bolivian media under governmental control?!
Los Tiempos editorial which reflects current pressures to freedom of speech and free press: Step by step towards media control As in other cases, a just cause is being reduced to the status of pretext for purposes as ignoble, as they are required to be masked A common feature of the Governments of the countries…
For lack of markets, Bolivian sugar price drops… how about the future?
There are no better ways to undermine production like what is happening in Bolivia… El Deber, Carla Paz reports: Drops the price of sugar for lack of markets Product. Because of the oversupply, the price of a 5 kg bag fell from Bs30 to Bs27. Industrialists and sugar cane producers express their concern. The IBCE…
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