evo MUST NOT get away with this: Business confiscation law

A worrisome yet superbly-written Editorial by Pagina Siete: Business confiscation law President Evo Morales feels compelled, every 1st of May, to make a “gift” to the workers. In this order, he has made a long series of nationalizations (except the railroads, which are in the hands of the Venezuelan businessman Carlos Gil), and has announced…

Bolivia export loses …

El Diario reports: For lack of foreign policy Bolivia loses in export • According to IBCE, the great pending chapter for the country is the competitiveness posed by globalization The country loses ground in terms of sales and is isolated in export issues due to the absence of a foreign policy to integrate the economic…

Bolivian Flight Attendant Who Survived Plane Crash Now a Model and Author

Latin American Herald Tribune reports: Bolivian Flight Attendant Who Survived Plane Crash Now a Model and Author LA PAZ – Former Bolivian flight attendant Ximena Suarez, the only woman to survive the 2016 crash of an airliner carrying Brazil’s Chapacoense soccer club, now parades down catwalks as a model and plans to publish a second…

Thorny external panorama for Bolivia

El Diario Editorial: Thorny external panorama for Bolivia Three successive blows of external origin have just been suffered by the Bolivian Plurinational State: 1) the decision of the Venice Commission that maintains that the presidential re-election of a ruler is not a human right, 2) the decision of the Human Rights Committee of the United…

Baroque Music Revives in Bolivia’s Chiquitania

Latin American Herald Tribune: Baroque Music Revives in Bolivia’s Chiquitania LA PAZ – In the 17th century, Jesuit missionaries used music to win the hearts and minds of Bolivian indigenous people, creating a musical tradition that has now been recovered by the Municipal Orchestra of San Jose Chiquitos and the Spanish ensemble MUSIca ALcheMIca. The…