Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: The process remains stalled Porvenir, five years without knowing the truth Pando. The opposition says that the Government has the former Prefect Leopoldo Fernández as a trophy. Today [9/11/13] marks five years of the Porvenir massacre, unless you know for sure who were the instigators of the confrontation between…
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Bolivian central government’s “pride”, lasted very little…
Humberto Vacaflor writes in HoyBolivia.com: Their pride lasted very little Cuba has decided to install a gigantic dock for containers, given that the ones the United States has in its territory do not cover its foreign trade traffic and need to rent them from the neighbors. These same days, the Bolivian Government has decided to…
Autonomy will suffer one more time, current Bolivian ochlocracy is relentless…
Aidee Rojas reports for El Deber: DELAY IN THE DISBURSEMENT YPFB poses to defer payment of HDI and royalties The transfer of the resources will be in uniform fees over 10 years The President of YPFB, Carlos Villegas, said yesterday about deferring the payment in five years, of the royalties and direct tax to the…
Bolivian ochlocracy and rampant corruption
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Institutionality and purging Vice President García Linera said that “there was no sufficient effort in the Bolivian police institutionally to purge their troops”; statement that it’s very interesting coming from him, an important man of a Government that got hold of a ‘pseudo-militants’ inside the military and police for…
Authoritarian leaders breed corruption and Bolivia is no longer a surprise
Andres Oppenheimer writes in The Miami Herald: Authoritarian leaders breed corruption BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM What’s most amazing about the arrest in Miami of Bolivia’s top anti-corruption police official, caught on tape extorting a bribe from a well-known businessman, was that hardly anybody was surprised by the news. Corruption by top officials of Bolivia, Ecuador,…
Senator Pinto’s repercussions on our relations with Brazil
Carlos Cordero writes in El Deber: Thanks to Pinto While Roger Pinto, Senator for the Department of Pando, had been held at the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, political and diplomatic relations between the States has remained at a standstill for more than 15 months. When the news became public, that Pinto had managed…
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