Finally a piece of good news for Bolivia! The company that operates a larger portion of El Mutun mine (iron mineral, border Santa Cruz with Brazil), Jindal Steel & Power reported the first shipment of 260 thousand metric tons of iron concentrates to China. For centuries Bolivia was known as a highland mining country who…
Need to improve ourselves
This week, Bolivia has agreed to cooperate with Brazil and the USA on drug enforcement operations. Relations between Bolivia and the USA are undergoing its worst relationship ever; not even under Garcia-Mesa government they were so tight and precarious. The DEA was expelled from Bolivia, the American Ambassador was asked to leave; only consular activities…
Fine tuning
Big thanks to all of you that have been reading these lines. Our initial purpose was accomplished, to make more public the events that shape Bolivia in this flat world. There is no more power to those who just withhold information, we can and will continue to communicate, to echo our mistakes, our successes. We’ve…
Bolivian humor and president’s popularity going down
Los Tiempos’ cartoon for today displays how low president’s popularity continues to fall. 22% is way to low from mid 60s he received the last election. Cartoon portraits two ducks, in Bolivia we have a table game called “cacho” and when there is two dices with number 2 displaying we call “par de patitos” or…
Business opportunities in Bolivia
Are we using mobile phones in an effective way? There are countries in Central America that started using their cellular phones like credit/debit cards. That tool was built to support SMEs and those micro informal entrepreneurs that can not access regular banking alternatives to credit and financing. Of an estimated population of 10.4 million people,…
Blockade or Produce? That is the question!
Yesterday, coca growing farmers were gathering around noon at the main plaza in Cochabamba city, to show support to the president and his government. During the last hectic days, few groups that used to riot remained calm this time, namely coca growers from both Yungas and Chapare; hydrocarbon workers who remained aside of the protests,…
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