This news proves, one more time that people in Santa Cruz do work! Written by Henrry Ugarte from El Deber: 50% of the harvest exceeded and call quickly to export sugar Guabirá and Unagro fear that ‘over stocking’ may affect Sugar mills Guabirá and Unagro exceeded half of the 2012 harvest and, in both cases,…
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Moody’s: Bolivia’s New Foreign Exchange Tax Is Credit Negative for Banks
From WSJ, by Arran Scott SINGAPORE–A move by Bolivia to tax foreign exchange transactions to enforce de-dollarization policies will undercut the credit health of local banks, Moody’s Investors Service said Monday. The Bolivian House of Representatives last Tuesday passed a bill to tax all foreign exchange transactions with a 0.7% levy for 36 months, Moody’s…
Bolivian government spends nine million dollars in propaganda…
El Dia reports [from Erbol]: In seven months exceeded the figure of 2011 Government spends $9 million in propaganda Monitoring. Doble N and Publimarket are companies that show the increase in expenses. The data offered by the companies of monitoring advertising and propaganda, Doble N and Publimarket reveal that the national Government spent, in 2011,…
Current Bolivian government is wrong!!
Jose Gramunt de Moragas has written for many years a weekly column “¿Es o no es verdad?” [is it true or is not?], which is also broadcasted in radio Fides from La Paz; over the years this Jesuit priest has proven his intelligence, clarity and above all professionalism; he is one of the best and…
Do mixed messages incentive production and employment in Bolivia?
Are contradictory messages a result of intentional purposes or just a reflection of how ‘well’ governmental units coordinate? if it is the latter, maybe the pre-dawn meetings forced onto many government officials are damaging to their understanding? In any case, here is a very illustrative case on the almost seven years of ‘learning’ how to…
Was he acting as a union leader or as a country’s president?
To me, the reaction of current Bolivian president fits within the union’s ‘culture’ in Bolivia. People in the board of a syndicate can not be fired, they are asked to leave because they were not hired, they were elected. When that happened, many people said the president lacked managerial skills, why he had to embarrass…
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