Despite all the national feedback, current government political party, has exerted their numeral superiority to pass the law in the lower and upper chambers of the National Assembly (former Congress). Now current president will have to sign it to start enforcement. This law approves some sort of “consultation” (referendum) that still needs to be clarified…
About the judicial “election” and their candidates in Santa Cruz
El Deber website posted this article last night: Today (10/12/11) was the day that the 74 aspiring candidates had to introduce themselves to the cruceno population. The setting was the Gilberto Parada Coliseum; to start at 11am. By noon only 20 of the 74 showed up; the public was also scarce which shows little interest on this…
Bolivian government’s: Prebends, Bribery, Payoff; Subsidies, Bonuses or plain naiveté?
The following link is from an article that was written by Julio H. Linares C. and published by Los Tiempos, 10/12/11. Linares lists all the unrestricted, unplanned, highly questioned disbursements current Bolivian president has made since he assumed office and in special under this week’s “extraordinary” circumstances. Yes, too close to the so-called Judicial “elections”…
Bolivia: Doing Business 2011, a WB – IFC publication
Out of 183 economies (countries), the World Bank (www.worldbank.org) co-published with the International Finance Corporation (www.ifc.org) the document: “Comparing Business Regulation in 183 countries” for 2011. Bolivia results’ follow: Bolivia certainly has room for improvement, we went down a place since last year’s. From Andres Oppenheimer’s article, an excerpt follows: “According to the World Bank’s “Doing…
TIPNIS group to arrive La Paz after Sunday, October 16, 2011
Pagina Siete newspaper reports that TIPNIS leaders have wisely decided to arrive to La Paz city after the day the so-called Judicial “elections” take place on Sunday, October 16, 2011. The indigenous group has decided to postpone their arrival to La Paz; they don’t want to give anyone excuses to blame this movement. Protest-walk group intend to…
Current Bolivia’s friends: Venezuela, Iran, Syria… why??
With their openly antagonism against free enterprise practices and open market activities, this government engages in questionable relations; along with the ALBA alliance Bolivia has with Venezuela, it embarks more and more with regimes like those of Iran and Syria. The latter with serious internal problems, like in other countries that experienced the coming of…
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