By Unitel: The Oruro camelid plant is so large that if it operates at 100% “we are going to wipe out the llamas,” warns the office of public enterprises “It’s not that the plant will only be used a little; either it works or it doesn’t. They didn’t think about feeding these camelids, they didn’t…
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The statist State suffocates Bolivian mining | El Estado estatista ahoga a la minería boliviana
By El Diario: Lawyer Heiddi Ruiz Gonzales states Mining law specialist Heiddi Ruiz Gonzales warned that Bolivian mining is paralyzed by legal uncertainty, Law 535, and heavy bureaucracy, despite the country having more than 9,000 companies and around 1,700 registered cooperatives. In an interview with EL DIARIO, she said that reactivating the sector requires a clear…
Zombie Firms Cost Billions | Empresas zombi cuestan miles de millones
By Erbol: Zombie Companies and the ‘Industrialization Scam’ Wasted US$2.595 Billion Lupo presented the figures of the “waste.” The government presented on Monday the figures of what it called the “great waste” and “corruption” of MAS governments in initiatives such as the creation of state-owned companies that ended up bankrupt, becoming “zombies,” and the “scam”…
Urban Mestizaje Emerges | Emerge el mestizaje urbano
By Carlos Toranzo, Brujula Digital: Bolivia, the unfolding of multiple mestizajes When analyzing the first round of the national elections of August 2025, we observe that the legitimacy of the Plurinational State founded by the MAS in the 2009 Constitution has collapsed; it may continue to exist in the wording of that Constitution, but it…
Indigenous Fund: it was not just looting… | Fondo indígena: no sólo fue saqueo…
Editorial, El Dia: The Indigenous Fund was not only a multimillion-dollar embezzlement; it was the most brutal demonstration of how a political apparatus can turn justice into a weapon for the destruction of human lives. The Fondioc case should not be remembered merely as the theft of a large sum from the poorest; it must be placed, without euphemisms, in the category of a flagrant violation of human…
Son of Marco Aramayo reveals that his father was offered two million dollars to plead guilty | Hijo de Marco Aramayo revela que le ofrecieron dos millones de dólares a su padre para que se declare culpable
By Visión 360: Corruption His lawyer stated that the former director of the Indigenous Fund repeatedly refused to submit to a plea bargain for a crime he did not commit. Marco Antonio Aramayo in an archive photo. Marco Aramayo, son of Marco Antonio Aramayo Caballero, former director of the Indigenous Fund, who denounced corruption in…
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