Bolivian government will NOT give incentives to the private sector! WTH!

El Diario reports: There will be no incentives for the private sector in the country • Executive rejected the application of investment inducements to this sector within the productive dialogue • The Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia admitted “conflicting positions” in the dialogue with authorities of the Government • The wage issue is considered…

What comes around, goes around.

The megalomaniac way of government of the coca grower caudillo can be summarized with this phrase: What comes around, goes around. This cartoon exemplifies clearly the way the masismo is killing our institutionality and democracy! Cheap demagogue coming to an end!

Bolivian gov flunked: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars

Pagina Siete reports via hoybolivia.com: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars The value of domestic exports until July continued its downward trend and decreased by 26% compared to 2015, while the trade deficit soared, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). The figures show that in the first seven months of last year sales…

Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests

Ryan Dube reports for The Wall Street Journal: Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests Cabinet of President Evo Morales approves measures that would increase regulation, ban use of dynamite in demonstrations. Bolivia’s government on Thursday moved to increase control over mining cooperatives in the wake of violent protests that resulted in the…

Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees

ANF reports in Los Tiempos: Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees After nearly a month of the approval of 12 decrees issued by President Evo Morales to address the effects of drought, the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) described them as “unserious” and “irrelevant”. Warned that failure to take serious action…