aPagina Siete reports: Financial Applications win at Innovalab The BISA Bank chose three groups as winners of the first innovation laboratory: Innovalab, held in La Paz. The selected applications were BISA Life, Chuspita and Lightning. The multidisciplinary groups worked strenuously for 48 hours in the creation of these technological solutions, received an economic incentive and, most…
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Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower
El Diario reports: Dramatic drop in soybean and sunflower The export of soybean and sunflower fell 28% in value terms and 23% in volume terms in January this year [2015], with regard to the same month last year, something that had not happened ten years ago. A report by the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade…
The incompetence and damaging “learning” process of the masismo! WTH!?
In his well-rehearsed melodramatic voice, current Bolivia president always like to say “I am learning, I did not know…” … over and over we heard this, through a “learning” decade, that Bolivia has lost, over $150 billion of our dollars were wasted. Now, the news of a failure, due to irresponsible demagogue and plain incompetence…
Bolivian wine among the 200 best in the world
El Deber reports: Bolivian wine among the 200 best in the world The ‘Trivarietal Reserva’ from Campos de Solana brand received the International Wine of the Year title. The award is given for the first time in history to a Bolivian broth. The Trivarietal Reserve from the Tarija winery Campos de Solana was included among…
Products made in Bolivia
From the Editorial section of Pagina Siete: Products made in Bolivia A packaged llajua [spice sauce made mainly with locoto/Capsicum pubescens and tomato], packaged pasankallas [sweet popcorn type] or singani [spirit made with distilled grapes, better than pisco] promoted by American film director and a long list of other innovations, are some examples of the…
Bolivian workers may get 15% increase on seniority bonus
Marcelo Campos reports for El Dia: By increasing the minimum wage Seniority bonus rises 15% Work. Businesses Reject increase and announce study to see the impact of the measure. The increase from 8.5% to 15% have basic and the national minimum, made automatically upload the seniority bonus of a worker up to 15% in all…
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