The sixth economic world power and largest international border we share with is Brazil. As such, we also depend a lot on their natural gas demand, they are our biggest, most important neighbor. Current Bolivian government still fails to respond Brazil on the political asylum granted to Senator Pinto. This past week was filled with…
Tag: democracy in peril
Using humor to understand corruption in Bolivia
This is from El Diario, May 29, 2012: Two people talking at the balconies of the former Congress, now Assembly: Woman 1: “…Congressman “Osney” wants to be given Bs7,000 bonuses! Says his congressman stipend is Bs12,000 is misery and it doesn’t even cover his expenses..!” Woman 2: “…it must be because of that… some of…
“BOLIVIA – IRAN: A PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP”
An important and very relevant press release from the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade – IBCE IBCE E-1097 / 2012 PRESS NOTE Despite the efforts: “BOLIVIA – IRAN: A PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP” How important it is for the foreign trade of Bolivia, the Islamic Republic of Iran? Despite the efforts of recent years to…
The UN calls for respect to the TIPNIS marchers and avoid conflicts
The United Nations has finally issued an statement to protect the brave TIPNIS protest-walk group, who are not only defending their indigenous territory but our National Parks’ structure and survival. El Deber reports: UN calls for respect to the marchers of the TIPNIS and avoid conflicts The United Nations system in a statement called this Saturday…
Bolivia is the fourth most violent country in South America
Bolivia had a tradition of being peaceful and with a quiet, almost shy population. Unfortunately and due to progressive violence, intolerance and anarchical reactions of some politicians, social movements, some individuals and criminals, Bolivia is now in a dubious state. From El Deber and 2012 Global Peace Index from Vision of Humanity: Bolivia is the…
Narcotrafficking amongst us Bolivians!
A serious call for attention, an editorial from Los Tiempos: Narco-trafficking amongst us The danger of falling into a kind of passivity and collective condescension is as large as the involving drug trafficking itself and its sequels A series of news widely reported during the last days in the mainstream media, although overshadowed by other…
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