The Walsh Group reports: Contractors and Engineers Travel To Bolivia to Build Suspension Footbridge CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwired – March 06, 2017) – An established partnership between Walsh Construction, Bridges to Prosperity and International Bridge Technologies resulted in the construction of a new 160-foot suspension footbridge for a remote village in Bolivia. Challoma Chico, located in the…
Bolivia is becoming like Somalia or Afghanistan, cocaine is taking over!
This cartoon is from Pagina Siete, 03/06/2017: It shows, a coca grower desire to pay an annual tax of only Bs50, less than $10 dollars! Somalia and/or Afghanistan have fallen to the control of small groups who with guns and money do as they [lease in those countries … similar thing is happening in Bolivia….
Banking Tax is criticized
Fides reports via Los Tiempos: Banking Tax is criticized The executive secretary of the Association of Private Banks of Bolivia (Asoban), Nelson Villalobos, assured that the increase in the additional aliquot of the Corporate Income Tax (IUE) of the financial sector will affect the issue of credits to the public, because it will prevent the…
Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent
Reuters reports: Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent Bolivian consumer prices rose 0.38 percent in February, the official National Statistics Institute said on Friday, marking an increase in inflation from 0.10 percent in January. Rising food and beverage prices led February’s increase. The South American natural gas exporting nation expects inflation of 5.03 percent…
Javier Sánchez: The work of a Bolivian tailor who arrived to Armani, Italy
Erbol reports via Pagina Siete: Javier Sánchez: The work of a Bolivian tailor who arrived to Armani, Italy The Bolivian took his work to Monte Napoleone Street, the most famous street in the world for fashion. Javier Sebastián Sánchez is a 46-year-old tailor from La Paz who left Bolivia to escape the economic crisis and…
UMSA professor wins award in Spain: Karina Medinaceli Díaz
Pagina Siete gives us great news! UMSA professor wins award in Spain Karina Medinaceli Díaz, Professor of Law at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, obtained the Ibero-American Data Protection Prize for her PhD thesis at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has given the result of the 2016…
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