New information came to me: six Bolivians were in the 85 casualties during that terrorist attack sponsored by Ahmad Vahidi, the Irani minister of Defense that visited Bolivia. This cartoon appeared in La Razon yesterday. It shows how the red carpet is being pulled of, remember he was a formal guest of current government. Another new…
Landslides in La Paz, what is going on?
It is common knowledge that large quantities of our resources went to studies, projects and remain in the corner of a forgotten public office. This time I wanted to show something positive, an approved project by the Inter American Development Bank (IADB in English and BID in Spanish). Early this year, heavy rainfall in La…
Bolivia, Argentina, Iran: Unbelievable mishap!
On Tuesday May 31, 2011, we had a guest that many of us did not know was here and apparently he was also asked to leave on the run, few hours after attending high level and important ceremonies… this kind of issues can only happen here in our beloved Bolivia… unfortunately. Personnel of the Defense…
Obama is deceiving Hispanics on immigration
Look out dear Bolivian readers in the USA, this article is very interesting: “In My Opinion: Obama is deceiving Hispanics on immigration By Andres Oppenheimer” aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/28/2240616/obama-is-deceiving-hispanics-on.html#ixzz1NvmxmBSi
Sad updates for Bolivia…
Remember prosecutor Marcelo Soza, in charge of the alleged terrorism/separatism case in Santa Cruz? Not so long ago he quit from that case, as it was turning against him, that is, he was not able to consolidate his accusations… well… he is still in charge and nothing has happened to clear this case. The death…
Market failures continued, part II
This government continues to erroneously intervene in the markets. The past is full of negative examples regarding controlled production or controlled prices. This time the government aims at controlling the production of alcohol instead of sugar, in the past 60% of the sugar cane production was sufficient to handle the national market. Price control and importing…
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