ANF reports via El Deber: Bolivia with $52.5 million dollars trade deficit in 10 years of potato production During 2016, 91% of the imported volume of potatoes and their derivatives came from Peru. The purchases were mostly fresh potatoes. Including potatoes for sowing, fresh, fried, dehydrated, starch and potato flour, between 2010 and 2016, the…
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Again! Bolivian gov’s ineptitude aims to put at risk business property … WTH!?
El Diario reports: Legal standard puts at risk business property • The private sector is in emergency due to the approval of the Social Enterprises bill in the Chamber of Deputies. CEPB President Ronald Nostas said that it is unacceptable and irrational to establish a legal causal when delay in the payment of services, wages…
Bolivia already experiences turbulence in the economy led by the ruling ochlocracy!
El Dia reports: According to academic Gonzalo Chávez Already turbulence in the economy Bolivia’s economy, so stable during the boom in natural gas and minerals prices, is beginning to suffer turbulence from an adverse external context and critical official policies that could complicate the reelection plans of leftist President Evo Morales. Deceleration. After growing 5.46%…
Bolivia Seeks Buyers For Gas With Petrobras Contract In Limbo … this gov has lost its credibility!
Brunno Braga reports for Hart Energy: Bolivia Seeks Buyers For Gas With Petrobras Contract In Limbo RIO DE JANIERO—Bolivia’s state-owned company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) is facing a crucial moment for its business. The company could lose business with one of its biggest clients. With less than two years left on its contract with…
Like Somalia and Colombia … this “government” is loosing ground to narcotrafficking!
El Diario reports: Brazil drug cartels operate in the country • At least 100 emissaries of the Brazilian Primer Comando da Capital (PCC) [Pimer Comando de Capital] cartel were detected operating in Bolivia, police commander Abel de la Barra reported. • Brazilian and Bolivian authorities will gather in the neighboring country to coordinate operations, such…
Brown and barren land: Bolivia’s historic drought – in pictures
The Guardian reports: Brown and barren land: Bolivia’s historic drought – in pictures During Bolivia’s worst drought in 25 years, photographer Marcelo Perez visited the reservoirs that supply drinking water to its biggest cities, to find a stark and arid landscape La sequía histórica de Bolivia – en imágenes All photographs by Marcelo Perez del Carpio…
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