From True Jersey – nj.com: Jersey City’s Bolivian parade stuns with colorful costumes By Ben Shapiro, The Jersey Journal Bolivian culture took center stage Saturday at the 12th annual Bolivian Parade and Festival in Jersey City. In native dress and costumes highlighting the red, yellow and green of the South American nation’s flag, hundreds of…
And another “screw-up” of the masismo: The charade of bilingualism
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: The charade of bilingualism Bolivians have always been quite bluffers, but that has increased a hundredfold with this multinational, multiethnic government, showing many ways of buffoonery that are printed in the preamble of the Constitution, although it was cited by Pope Francisco. One of the bluff is in the…
Bolivia gov needs to prioritize and allocate realistic budget to HEALTH
Pagina Siete reports: For the government to allocate 10% to health Father Mateo managed 300,000 signatures of support Father Mateo managed to collect about 300,000 signatures of support for the government to raise the health budget to 10%. This Monday, he will make a new march on plaza 24 de Septiembre in Santa Cruz. “We…
YPFB monitors affected area by the oil spill in Chapare
El Deber reports: YPFB monitors affected area by the oil spill Some 65 professionals are working in mitigation tasks. Daily, test the water and the land of Ivirgarzama. The Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) contingency teams, are monitoring water at the Magariños river and land in Ivirgarzama (Cochabamba), where last Friday [08/07/2015] there was an…
Monetary whim of the “armored” Bolivian finance minister…
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Monetary whim Convinced that the “economic miracle” of Bolivia is based on the fixed exchange rate of the currency, the finance minister refuses to meet the request of entrepreneurs in the country who suffer the consequences of the devaluation of the currencies of neighboring countries. The minister does not…
Bolivia – 2015 Index of Economic Freedom… going down under current demagogue!
Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 46.8, making its economy the 163rd freest in the 2015 Index. Its overall score is 1.6 points worse than last year, with notable deteriorations in six of the 10 economic freedoms including financial freedom, investment freedom, and labor freedom. Bolivia is ranked 26th out of 29 countries in the South…
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