Bolivia is dangerously threatening its food security, here an Editorial from El Diario: Lesser production and more imports of wheat From about six years ago, government agencies were insisting on the issues of food security and sovereignty and offering, at the same time, large increases in agricultural production, price cuts, suspension of imports, modernization of…
Are your savings (remittances) safe? Is the TIPNIS safe? Is ‘evo cumple’ safe?
Today I want to share three main issues that we must be aware of: Remittances – Savings: Most Bolivians working abroad, do have a serious commitment, to send their income to their families back home. To cover loans, build up a house and for daily expenses. Hard labor, working stressed with the phantom of deportation,…
Is Bolivia going on the right foot??!
Certainly NOT!!! So far, not good at all… we continue to strive, to survive, despite the lack of clear public policies, incentive to private investing, creation of employment. On the other hand, narcotrafficking, smuggling, violent take overs and chaos and anarchy seem to rule, even more when the one elected abandons the country on some…
Tailored Laws and the need of Power
Carlos Valverde‘s interesting analysis, from El Deber: Tailored Laws and the need of Power Those who understand that discrimination and racism, as well as gender-based violence, must be eradicated from the country and, at the same time, sentence and punish those who incurred in it; we never think that laws on these subjects have been…
Someone to be proud: Wilmer Urrelo, a winning Bolivian writer!
Jorge Soruco writes for La Razon: “It is surprising that someone should notice Bolivian literature, almost invisible” Wilmer Urrelo – Bolivian writer won the Anna Seghers Literature Award 2012 which is given annually to a Latin American author and another German. The award is endowed with more than $10 thousand and will be delivered on…
Only in current Bolivia… what a shame of this political style!
Current Bolivian government continues to show it cares very little of laws and manipulates them at will. Estefany Claros Aldana reports for El Dia: Adriana Gil prepares an injunction to avoid suspension The opposition Deputy, from National Convergence (CN), Adriana Gil, announced that she is preparing a Constitutional Protection [Amparo Constitucional] to avoid being suspended,…
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