From the editorial page of El Dia: About telephone companies and insecurity What we Bolivians came to find out now. It is now known that the responsible for the insecurity in the country are two private telephone, for allegedly not cooperating in the investigation of the kidnappings and other serious crimes. The Government has been…
Tag: demagogue
“environmental” demagogue or plain lack of understanding?
Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Monoculture or ‘mono-speech’? Some people dare to make negative judgments against the agricultural sector and are given the luxury of say – with an angelic halo – about things that never were and who do not understand. Not risking their fortune, not sweating a single drop, not planting anything,…
Disappointing behavior of Santa Cruz “leaders”…
Over the last eight years, Santa Cruz remained as the oasis, the hope that the ruling ochlocracy was going to be restrained… it was with great disappointment that the cruceño leadership surrendered to the coca-grower and populist political party… The following excerpts and links for full articles in Spanish, describe the sentiment of those Bolivians…
Bolivian gov issues bonds paying high rates and does not use CAF low interest loans!!
Marco Chuquimia reports for El Deber: THIS YEAR THE COMMITMENT OF THE AGENCY IS TO GIVE $500 MILLION DOLLARS CAF ensures that the country will not use 100% of their credit The private sector receives about $100 million and the remaining are for public investment projects, roads mainly, according to the entity. The country receives…
Ronald H. Coase’s work and Bolivia
Pedro Shimose writes in El Deber: . . In memory of Ronald H. Coase Has died the British Economist, US nationalized, Ronald Harry Coase (Willesden, near London, 12/29/1910 – Chicago, 09/02/2013 / Nobel Prize 1991), at the age of 102. Contemporary of Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009 / Nobel Prize 1970), said: “in this age of…
Five years from ignoring who caused death in Porvenir, Pando
Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: The process remains stalled Porvenir, five years without knowing the truth Pando. The opposition says that the Government has the former Prefect Leopoldo Fernández as a trophy. Today [9/11/13] marks five years of the Porvenir massacre, unless you know for sure who were the instigators of the confrontation between…
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