El Deber, Henrry Ugarte report about cotton and other agricultural produce: The chart: Evolution of the cotton production; the first chart refers to planted area; second is for production; below the yield and base price graphs. Figures are from 1999 to 2009. It is still far away the possibility to match the glorious times as…
Insufficient natural gas to meet market demands
El Dia published on December 8, 2011 information about the Bolivian supply of natural gas being insufficient for projects like El Mutun (iron): [You can see the total supply in the colored ‘waves’, representing the gas fields. The line on top of all is the total demand and the down pointing red arrows represents the…
Government’s self admiring club of friends…
Current Bolivian government will have a self admiring gathering between December 12 and 14. Most of the actors and stakeholders of Bolivian public policy will not be present unfortunately. This cartoon was published by La Razon, December 9, 2011. You can an annoyed and disgusted president, at a party where many of their “old-time” supporters…
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Please remember that most posts here are English translations from Spanish articles from Bolivian newspapers or news heard or seen in radio and TV, respectively. [Brackets like these will be used, in the main body of the post, to reflect clarifications in the language, background and at times my opinion based on experience in the…
What worries us Bolivians?
Pagina Siete reports on a recent poll about what worries the citizens of Bolivia: The lack of public safety, the family economy and the growth of corruption are the main concerns of Bolivians, according to the latest IPSOS poll. The opinion study prepared for Pagina Siete reveals that 23% of the country is concerned about…
Beautiful Titicaca lake and pollution
El Deber reports on an Erbol news regarding pollution in lake Titicaca: The “small” lake, also called Wiñaymarka, in Titicaca [please visualize the size of the whole and you will notice a larger and a smaller part of it.] It is contaminated every day with millions of gallons of untreated sewage from the cities of…
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