An extremelly important Editorial from El Diario: Illegal annotation of family assets The fact that any public prosecutor’s office in the country has preventive annotations of property of relatives of persons who have matters to do with justice for offenses or crimes that they have committed, causes a cause of alarm and concern in the…
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Bolivia November inflation 0.42 pct, 12-month rate 3.88 pct
Reuters reports: Bolivia November inflation 0.42 pct, 12-month rate 3.88 pct Dec 6 Bolivian inflation was 0.42 percent in November, up from 0.37 percent in October, the government’s National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Tuesday. Prices of food, particularly potatoes and tomatoes, as well as housing and basic services, drove the rise, INE said in…
evo is a true and despicable ochlocrat!
We can no longer expect otherwise, the coca grower caudillo has reached his full potential: the incapacity to govern! This cartoon is from El Dia 11/24/2016. It portrays the numerous failures at managing public funds and the total incompetence at delivering his demagogue, in an attempt to remain in power, after wasting over $150 billion…
The Water War
Violeta Ayala writes in The Huffington Post: The Water War “Don’t jump the queue! I was the first in line. Get out of the way!” Shouts a man carrying a bucket, “I’ve got three kids and was waiting somewhere else and when the water truck came there wasn’t enough for all of us. We don’t…
What’s Behind Bolivia’s Cooperative Mining Wars?
Nacla reports: What’s Behind Bolivia’s Cooperative Mining Wars? Bolivia’s brutal cooperative mining conflict reveals the growing contradictions and perils of extractivism at the end of the commodities bonanza, as the government and popular sectors struggle to control a dwindling mining surplus. by Emily Achtenberg On August 25, Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes was detained,…
Bolivia: La Paz Water Rationing Now Permanent, Amid Climate-Fueled Drought
Democracy Now reports: Bolivia: La Paz Water Rationing Now Permanent, Amid Climate-Fueled Drought And in La Paz, Bolivia, government officials have declared the system of water rationing is now permanent, amid a worsening drought. Scientists say the drought is caused by the rapid retreat of glaciers due to global warming. Over the last three decades,…
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