ANF reports in El Deber: Jubileo sees that energy will not generate jobs The institution said that in the 2016 PGE [General State Budget], there are fewer resources for agriculture, industry and tourism. The Jubileo Foundation warns that the new commitment of the Government to allocate 22.7% of the 2016 General State Budget (PGE) for…
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Collapse of Bolivian exports
An Editorial from El Diario: Collapse of Bolivian exports Only last January, exports of various domestic products fell by one third in relation to the same month last year, according to worrying statistic provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the crash regarding foreign sales pertains to gas, manufacturing, minerals and agricultural products. More concretely,…
Scandal-Plagued Bolivia Trumpets Drug Seizure Figures
From InSight Crime: Scandal-Plagued Bolivia Trumpets Drug Seizure Figures Written by Arron Daugherty Bolivia’s government has touted an increase in drug seizures as a sign of improving interdiction capabilities, while an ongoing scandal involving President Evo Morales continues to unfold. In the first two months of 2016, Bolivia’s Special Fighting Force Against Drug Trafficking (Fuerza…
Bolivia’s current presidential scandal goes beyond sex
From the Miami Herald: Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s scandal goes beyond sex The scandal over Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales’ secret love affair, with a young woman with whom he had a child who the president says has died, but the woman says is alive, is making headlines throughout Latin America. But that’s the least outrageous…
Bolivia president blames ‘conspiracy’ for loss – but weary voters may be to blame
Jonathan Watts writes for The Guardian: Bolivia president blames ‘conspiracy’ for loss – but weary voters may be to blame Rather than a broad ideological shift or dirty tactics by the opposition, Evo Morales’s defeat probably has more to do with scandals and rising expectations. Another election, another loss for a leftwing government in Latin…
The exodus of Bolivian taxpayers or their relentless annihilation?!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Exodus of taxpayers Much more important than the re-re-re-election of a leader born in Orinoca, but emerged from the illegal coca of the Chapare, is the mass exodus of Bolivian companies into the informal sector. It is that this has to do with the existence of the Bolivian state….
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