ANF reports in Pagina Siete: Should seek visible and invisible land mines National Robot achieved third place in global competition The international humanitarian demining competition gathered 94 representatives of Egypt, Chile and Portugal, among other countries. The Bolivian B0sweeper robot, created by students and engineers from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), took third…
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Bolivia – 2015 Index of Economic Freedom… going down under current demagogue!
Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 46.8, making its economy the 163rd freest in the 2015 Index. Its overall score is 1.6 points worse than last year, with notable deteriorations in six of the 10 economic freedoms including financial freedom, investment freedom, and labor freedom. Bolivia is ranked 26th out of 29 countries in the South…
Undisputed truth: the masismo has managed to drive our exports down!
Opinion reports: Bolivian exports fall 29.6 percent OPINION.- The country’s exports in the first half of 2015 fell by 29.6 percent compared to those recorded in the same period of 2014. Between January and June 2014 export earnings totaled $6,657 million dollars while in the same period this year the amount reached $4,687 million dollars,…
Peanut captures the attention of European companies
Tatiana Chavez reports for Los Tiempos: Peanut captures the attention of European companies In the Second Business Roundtable of Bolivia Pavilion at Expo Milan, the Cochabamba peanut struck 34 European business representatives. Its nutritional properties, its biological quality, but above all its flavor caused impact on European companies, especially in the 14 specialized in dried…
CBN volunteers cleaned Titicaca lakeside
Pagina Siete reports: CBN volunteers cleaned Titicaca lakeside In the framework of Corporate Social Responsibility, volunteers of the Bolivian National Brewery (CBN) conducted the cleaning of the Kohana Bay of Lake Titicaca. The activity was held with the Ministries of Environment and Water, Health, Justice, Culture and Tourism, Education and Foreign Affairs, and several universities…
400 Bolivian families can now export yarn to France
El Diario reports: EU funded innovative project 400 families export yarn to France A unique project which has European cooperation, seek to open export markets for 3,500 families in five departments that produce camelids. A simple spinning wheel driven by a motor improve the quality and productivity of spinning. A first batch of 400 motor…
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