ANF reports: GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS NO INVENTORY OF TOTAL SEIZED ITEMS The annual report of the Ministry of Government does not consider assets confiscated in the departments of Potosí and Oruro. La Paz, Dec. 19 (ANF)-Government Minister Carlos Romero, recognized that to date there is no full record of all those goods seized…
Wild capitalism consolidates in Bolivia…?!
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The wild capitalism is consolidated in Bolivia While Bolivian analysts engage in empirical speculation about abstract concepts, the country’s economy advances in irrepressible form by way of capitalist development, although most is wild capitalism than a capitalism with maturity and reduces the sacrifice of laborers and workers in general….
Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York
Joseph Berger writes in The New York Times: Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York A Brooklyn flooring contractor and father of five, who was jailed in Bolivia for 18 months until the intervention of the actor Sean Penn lessened his punishment to confinement under house arrest, has been spirited…
Bolivian justice… from bad to worse… thanks to exiting ruling ochlocracy!
From http://www.hoybolivia.com Östreicher lawyer declared him as disappeared Yimmy Montaño, lawyer of Jacob Östreicher, ruled out this Monday the possibility of escape of his client and said that his client never expressed the desire to leave Bolivia because he intended to prove his innocence. “We are concerned about this situation, we have brought to the…
Illegal land takeovers are not properly published/controlled under today’s ochlocracy!
Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber: WAITING FOR THE REGULATION TO PROTECT THE PROPERTY RIGHTS Producers object to fragile penalty for land invaders Today the agricultural sector analyzes the Act against the land takeovers. They seek that punishment, years in prison, is greater. The Government says that it will have a range of urban…
Cheap electoral price controls by current Bolivian gov
Roberto Ortiz writes in El Deber: What hides the double bonus President Evo Morales signed on November 20, Supreme Decree 1802, which authorizes the payment of the double bonus to workers in the public and private sector. We must start from the economic statement that a bonus is a salary, as it is part of…
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