An Editorial from El Diario: The inconvenience of the Sovereign Bonds When in October 2012 and mid- 2013 the government issued two items of $500 million each, were held at all levels, the inconvenience of Sovereign Bonds. In October 2012 the Finance Minister clearly said that “the country does not need foreign credit because the…
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Bolivian gov fails to understand priorities, embarks in useless expenses like the G77 meeting…
Marcelo Rivero writes in El Deber: The summit, a pill we must not swallow Continue sliding down the MAS authorities of all stripes from the centralism installed in La Paz in order to give instructions (are stories about consensus) overlooking the vaunted summit, using the cramp to be funny before smiling ones by force that…
Bolivian ruling ochlocratic government in carnival!
This blog has the purpose of translating from Spanish news, the best articles that can depict where are we going, not only politically, economically but as well as our heroes, our entrepreneurs, our champions. In the middle of the 2014 carnival, I thought there would be no other way to demonstrate current centralist ochlocratic government…
Bolivian Justice or ‘the boomerang syndrome’
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: Justice or ‘the boomerang syndrome’ President Evo Morales has publicly stated that reforming the judiciary did not produce the results expected and nothing helped bring professionals with skirt [pollera is a typical clothing for the indigenous highlands and valleys women] and hat, with reference to their ethnic composition. The…
Bolivian gov’s demagogue, not nationalization but purchase!
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: Nationalization or purchase? That of recovering the companies for the people is becoming for us, a very expensive activity, and each May 1st or such emblematic date of the MAS, we must tremble because the usual ‘nationalization’, which are not another thing that purchases of foreign companies, which becomes…
Bolivian gov’s wrongdoings that WE have to pay!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Debts you have to pay For the purposes of transnational corporations, you could say that a revolution is radical indeed when their leaders refuse to pay compensation for the nationalizations that make. Cuba, for example, did not want to pay compensation and has ignored the international courts that failed…
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