The first banana export happened under the Alternative Development program, a USAID project. Such export only happened since there were two trucks that came from Arica, Chile with tires and went back empty. The project gave high quality bananas, planting and harvesting techniques, credit, as well as marketing assistance to the banana unions that started…
Tag: demagogue
What makes us feel Bolivian? | ¿Qué nos hace sentir bolivianos?
El Diario: The polarization that the country is experiencing from the confrontation between two political views on identity has led a group of young analysts to debate the differences and coincidences that exist in society to answer the question: What makes us feel Bolivian?, in the forum organized by the Fides News Agency (ANF). The…
The entire Bolivia will pay in life the sentence against Jeanine Añez | Bolivia entera pagará en vida la condena contra Jeanine Añez
Loreto Correa, Página Siete: Rarely in contemporary history does one find situations like that of Jeanine Añez. As much as one looks for evidence that condemns it, the conclusion we reach is that it is a legal political montage without comparison. An embarrassment for all Bolivians. The decision to take her to trial, her imprisonment,…
Illegal mining, absent state | Minería ilegal, Estado ausente
Editorial, El Deber: In the south of the Madidi National Park, in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, community members and illegal miners shoot each other, burn houses, kidnappings take place and the State makes its complete absence shine there. On Tuesday of this week there was a confrontation that left…
The damn roadblocks encouraged by evo | Los malditos bloqueos de caminos alentados por evo
Editorial, Los Tiempos: One blockade after another Although the country is still immersed in the economic crisis, which began to manifest itself in 2014, and in the health crisis, since an imminent fifth wave of the pandemic is already announced, the road blockade has reappeared on the public agenda as a form of pressure so…
Serious structural flaws in the Justice | Fallas estructurales graves en la Justicia
Editorial, El Deber: Dramatic report of the UN rapporteur All of us Bolivians knew it, but a foreign professional with the position of special rapporteur of the United Nations had to come to carry out an observation mission and several interviews to take away a good amount of information, the same information that today allows…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 