Economic uncertainty | Incertidumbre económica

El Diario: Bolivia needs peace and certainty in the face of economic uncertainty Faced with possible new conflicts with greater political and social confrontation in 2024, after the year 2023 marked by economic uncertainty, the deputy for the Citizen Community (CC), Alejandra Camargo and the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) maintain that in…

The clear message from businessmen | El claro mensaje de los empresarios

Editorial, El Deber: A difficult 2024 and a lack of clarity regarding government actions to confront it is what private entrepreneurs grouped in the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Cainco) and the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia observe. Both institutions agreed on several concerns during the presentation of their end-of-year messages. And that is…

Fish that eats piranhas – Paiche – Pez que come pirañas

Bob Howard – Assignment, BBC World Service, Yahoo News: The fish that eats piranhas for breakfast Guillermo Otta Parum has been fishing in the Bolivian Amazon his whole life, for more than 50 years. At first, Guillermo was catching native fish, such as the various kinds of catfish which inhabit the river. But then a…

The Bolivian energy black hole | El agujero negro energético boliviano

Alvaro Ríos, El Deber: In astronomical jargon, a black hole can be defined as: A finite region of space described in Einstein’s equations, whose interior has a concentration of mass high enough to generate a gravitational field such that, except for a certain type of quantum processes, no particle or radiation—not even light—can “escape” from…