By Oscar Antezana, El Día: Under current economic conditions —highly indebted, short on dollars, with reduced gas exports yet an urgent need to generate foreign currency— it is imperative and urgent to increase and diversify exports. Otherwise, just like 40 years ago, when former President Víctor Paz Estenssoro coined the historic phrase “Bolivia is dying…
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Llama Meat Heads to the U.S. | Carne de llama rumbo a EE.UU.
By El Diario: Llama meat in process to reach the U.S. market The president of the Bolivian Association of Camelid Producers, Wilfredo Chambi, reported that the protocols for the export of charque (dehydrated meat) from llama to the United States market have been sent. “A week ago, the protocols we must comply with for export to the…
Leaving Behind the Pathetic Country | Dejar atrás el país patético
Editorial, El Dia: It remains pathetic to see Bolivian entrepreneurs —from El Alto, Santa Cruz, or any other region— making a pilgrimage to present their complaints, projects, demands, and pleas to the new government. They go with folders in hand, as if the Government were an almighty entity capable of solving all their problems, approving…
Notable U.S. Rapprochement | Notable acercamiento de Estados Unidos
By Javier Viscarra, Brujula Digital: What began as a friendly mention of Bolivia by President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as a potential new partner in Latin America during a press conference motivated by Argentine President Javier Milei’s visit, has, in just two weeks, turned into a remarkable closeness. First came…
Clear rules now | Reglas claras ya
By Erbol: Business leaders demand clear regulations and legal security to reactivate the productive sector Meeting of industrialists with president-elect Rodrigo Paz in Santa Cruz. The president of the National Chamber of Industries (CNI), Gonzalo Morales, and the first vice president, José Eduardo Iriarte, took part in the First National Meeting with the Business and…
Bolivia: Calls the world from Santa Cruz | Convoca al mundo desde Santa Cruz
By Raúl Domínguez, El Deber: President-elect announces international business summit in Santa Cruz ahead of taking office Rodrigo Paz announced the business summit for November 7 in Santa Cruz / Photo: Fuad Landívar “We will hold this summit on November 7 to begin a change — a change in the destiny of the nation, an…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 