Pagina Siete reports on a very important element for the economics of Bolivian households who have part of their families working outside our country: A total of 89 business that generated at the same time 254 jobs are the result of the implementation of the migratory model of voluntary people coming back; an initiative made…
Coca growers against the TIPNIS intangible condition…
This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 3, 2011. The “intangibility” concept has resulted a headache to the indigenous people of the TIPNIS; who already lost the contracts with the tourism agencies and the controlled logging activities. The coca growers group who support current government, wanted to enter the TIPNIS, so they could expand their…
TIPNIS latest as of December 4, 2011 – 20:32 PM
El Deber website reported the latest agreement between TIPNIS leaders and the government regarding the regulations for the “short law” and the ‘intangible’ concept: The document was signed approximately at 10:30 AM this Sunday, informed the President of the sub-central Sécure, Fernando Vargas, now the regulation must be endorsed by presidential decree. The Act establishes that…
December Econ 101: An alert that State intervention is ‘expensive’
A very informative report news, extremely useful economic analysis of current Bolivian government performance. Written by Carla Paz Vargas for El Deber, December 3, 2011: The blackouts, the importation of food, the restriction of exports, the increase in the subsidy to fuel, lack of jobs and the collapse of foreign investment, among other things, are…
Money laundering & inflation against Bolivian society
This cartoon is from El Diario, November 30, 2011. It portrays how much money laundering, and narco-traffick are becoming a real nuisance and are also more widely perceived by Bolivian society; out there for anyone to see… In the cartoon the person is pointing and saying: “these buildings are known as ‘washing buildings’ they whiten…
Latin America is beating poverty – sort of
An excellent article from Andres Oppenheimer who visited Santa Cruz this year, as Julio Cesar Caballero Moreno had the great initiative to bring him over. Latin America is beating poverty – sort of BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER In sharp contrast to the gloom surrounding U.S. and European economic news, a new United Nations report has good…
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