Validity of authorization to import products governed since July

ABI reports for Los Tiempos: Validity of authorization to import products governed since July Deputy Minister of Micro and Small Enterprises, Martin Bazurco announced yesterday that in July this year will take effect the Supreme Decree of prior import authorizations product. “We have within 60 days to leave the regulations and implement,” he said and…

Moody’s cuts outlook rating to negative for Bolivia

America Economia reports: Moody’s cuts outlook rating to negative for Bolivia Moody’s lowered Bolivia’s rating outlook credit to negative from stable, persistent pressures on the balance of payment and tax, as a result of an increase in budget deficits and current account. Moody’s kept the note for government bonds in Bolivia to ‘Ba3’. “Unlike other…

The shield of the MAS government, is a bad joke, they have nothing!

El Diario reports: Millennium propounds productive development policies They are increasingly less entrepreneurs dedicated to the production, primarily industrial. Most of them prefer import trade, often more profitable and less demanding of employees. PROPOSAL To reverse this anomaly, the Millennium Foundation, in a document entitled The decrees of May 1: Beyond dynamite, proposed to the…

Melting Pot and Manq’a Bolivia proves it can be done!

Melting Pot Bolivia reports: Learning to cook together for a better world” The MANQ’A Project (Aymara word meaning “food”), is an initiative of Melting Pot Bolivia created with the aim of improving the quality of life of the community in El Alto within the principles of gender equity, multiculturalism and food sovereignty. The MANQ’A project…

Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell

Plastics News reports: Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell Bolivia’s state-owned petrochemical company will license polypropylene technology from LyondellBasell Industries for use at the country’s first plastic resins plant. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has selected Spheripol process technology for the 550-million-pound capacity plant in Tarija. Market sources said the plant is expected…

The elegance of Bolivian “cholitas” reaches the Big Apple

EFE reports in Fox News Latino: The elegance of Bolivian “cholitas” reaches the Big Apple The elegant clothing style of the La Paz “cholita,” the emblematic indigenous Aymara woman who is the cultural icon of La Paz, will be seen for the first time during Fashion Week in New York this September. The famed New…