An Editorial from El Diario: Poverty, underdevelopment and lack of employment Due to the high international prices of gas, minerals and some commodities that we export, our income in foreign currency have risen considerably compared to what happened until eight or more years ago. That kind of surplus has allowed that the country has very…
Tag: bad politics
Bolivian taxes 101
Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes for Los Tiempos: Taxes The State is the common house and, as all home, need money to support itself. That is the simplest explanation for the existence of taxes or taxes that are not anything other than the payments we make the inhabitants of the common house to keep it…
A Bolivian cynic government!
HoyBolivia.com reports: Costas: Government manages with a high degree of cynicism Governor Rubén Costas said that the national Government accuses the [Catholic] bishops in the theft of the jewels of the Virgin of Copacabana, in an attempt to cause controversy and cover the real problems of the country. “As sometimes it [the government] disorients, even…
Will justice prevail? How expensive it gets not to have a solid economic policy in Bolivia
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: A fireproof test If there is or there is no legal assurances in the country, will surely be known now, with the decision of Justice in favor of La Paz factory SOBOCE by the case of the expropriation of shares of the Chuquisaca Fancesa cement factory. The mentioned decision…
Bolivian sociopolitical conundrum: indigenous doctrines, decolonization?!
H. C. F. Mansilla superbly describes our lives, from El Dia: Decolonization and the sanctity of hatred The doctrines of decolonization in the Andean area see themselves as theoretical frameworks, basically progressives and leftists, consecrated at the same time to the socialist thought and the revitalization of a communitarianism humanist immersed in pre-Hispanic indigenous traditions….
Why did high Bolivian elected authorities lied in the Chaparina/TIPNIS brutal aggression?
A. Villafan and ERBOL report and printed in Pagina Siete: Statements by the former Minister Chacon to the prosecution, according to the MSM Evo and ministers monitored what was happening in Chaparina REPRESSION. The attorney Aida Camacho indicates that the responses of the former defense minister to questioning from prosecutors, contradict what the Vice President…
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