Editorial, El Deber: Salary increase in the middle of the pandemic Almost as a routine every year, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) has announced that next week it will convene an expanded national meeting to define a list of requests to the national government, which highlights the demand to obtain a wage increase of 10…
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The vibrant life of a city engineer
Our Wellington: For Veronica Byrne, making regular site visits has never been so easy. In other parts of the world, she’s had to drive long distances, trek, or be flown to sites to supervise the development of roads, bridges, flood protection schemes and runways. Veronica is the Wellington City Council engineer overseeing the development of the…
Todos contra la desigualdad – All against inequality
Editorial, El Diario: The private sector matters a lot for development It is time to agree that the extremes of the left or right have ceased to be important in the economy, that the peoples downplay them because they are retrograde positions that argued that private capital is contrary, alien, strange and counterproductive for development…
Intervención negativa – Negative intervention
Fides: Anapo rejects government warning to suspend soy exports The Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (Anapo), through its President, Fidel Flores, expressed this Friday (1/29/2021) his rejection of the warning made by the Ministry of Productive Development and Plural Economy to suspend exports of soybeans if the oilseed industries do not supply flour in…
Why Bolivia Should Be Your Next Wine Destination
Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler: And how you can start drinking Bolivian wine right now. In 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay hosted a blind wine-tasting contest. Tasters sampled tannat wines, made with a grape originating (but not universally beloved) in France, that is now a prized export of Uruguay. The surprise winner: a Bolivian wine. It was Bolivia’s first-ever grand…
Exportando vino – Exporting wine
Brujula Digital: From Outside with Ramón Escobar: The man who opened the doors to Bolivian wines in North America WASHINGTON DC.- Bolivian wines and singanis have already entered the North American market through Chufly Imports, a company founded by Ramón Escobar, a Bolivian-American determined to catalyze “impact investing” or impact investments that aim to improve…
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