IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…
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Encroachment is threatening one million hectares
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Deforest protected area of the Rio Grande Encroachment is threatening 1 million hectares Report. The CAO accused the Deputy Mayor of Hardenman, of leading the wreckage. There is alert in the productive sector. The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) yesterday denounced the deforestation of a protected area in the town of…
Current president does not hold it together…
Humberto Vacaflor describes what is going on under the electoral campaign, he writes in El Diario: Campaign Errors To arrest Mario Orellana was clumsy by the MAS. Worse still, it was a mistake on the [election] campaign. Moreover, it was a demonstration of lack of coordination in the bowels of the political instrument of liberation….
2014 Human Development Index for Bolivia
Following data was extracted from the UNDP report: If you want to read the whole “explanatory note” that appears below, please use this link: Now, an excerpt from the data tables for Bolivia follow: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Use this for direct access…
Under current gov, there are still many unresolved corruption cases!
El Diario reports: 12 unsolved cases obscure transparency • YPFB, BoA, satellite and cable cars and other like buying Chinese barges and robbery to the BCB [Central Bank] hit the credibility of the Bolivian justice. • There are also reports that so far do not have enough evidence to start processes. Twelve cases with evidence…
Bolivia’s food security in peril; flour imports continue to increase!
Bolivia loses control of our food security, our producers are constrained with quotas, there is little if any protection for the investor, too many road/street blockades and rampaging anarchy. Those are a result of the incompetence of current ochlocracy in government. Bolivia needs to produce more wheat, needs to decrease the amount of imports and…
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