Los Tiempos reports about what appeared in principle a good positive intention from current government. However, after reading the whole article, you can decide… Bolivia will invest at least $ 1 million a year to become as an international tourist destination and will create, for that purpose, the national strategic tourism services company, reported the…
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Bolivian jewelry exports’ decline
Unfortunately, one of our best alternatives of value added exports is in decline, it worries more the almost 60% reduction in volume, not so much in the dollar amount, as the increase in gold’s prices tends to offset the latter. Pagina Siete reports: The export of articles of jewelry was reduced by 58% in volume…
Bolivian government’s or market failures?
Current Bolivian government continues with indecision and has generated unnecessary production-side uncertainty, Pagina Siete reports: Restrictions on the export of rice prepared by the Government, which led to the loss of markets, and the intervention of Emapa made that an over stocking of the product takes place, resulting in a reduction of the price, according…
EXPOFOREST 2012 – March 21 – 24
From http://www.hoybolivia.com: The 10th international fair of the forest, wood & technology “EXPOFOREST 2012”, to be held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from 21 to 24 March 2012, the largest exhibition of forest industry of wood, furniture, biodiversity, research, technology, promotion of products of the forest, Bolivia and sustainable development projects. Activities of EXPOFOREST…
Beautiful jewelry from Santa Cruz
It was with great surprise that I found this jewelry store: Andrea. It has great designs and what is more important has an interesting website in English, so anyone of you out there could order fine Bolivian jewelry. The site is not updated as they do have a nice earrings and pendant with the Patuju,…
TIME reports: Bolivian Coca Farmers Switch to Coffee Beans
This is from TIME, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reporting: For millennia, farmers in Bolivia’s breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century,…
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