InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
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BOLIVIA BANS BEEF EXPORTS AMID SUPPLY FEARS, RISING PRICES
Daniel Ramos, Reuters, Successful Farming: LA PAZ, April 22 (Reuters) – Bolivia has temporarily banned exports of beef in order to guarantee supply for its domestic market and to prevent prices from rising, the government said on Thursday. “We are suspending meat exports,” Minister of Rural Development and Lands Remmy Gonzales told reporters, adding the…
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
“corruption is becoming culture” – «corrupción se está volviendo cultura»
Candido Tancara, Pagina Siete: Church sees that “corruption is becoming culture” in the country The bishops see “urgent” judicial reform to “establish the truth of what happened” in the cases and a fiscal pact for “true economic decentralization.” Former Minister of Rural Development and Lands Edwin Characayo was discovered on Tuesday night in flagrant crime…
State still faces five arbitrations in external courts – Estado aún enfrenta cinco arbitrajes en tribunales externos
Pagina Siete: There are unresolved lawsuits from Glencore, AFPs, Orlandini mining company and Soboce. The State still faces five international arbitration lawsuits for the nationalization of mines and affecting the contracts of the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP), among others. The information was presented by the State Attorney General’s Office (PGE), during the Initial Public Accountability…
One billion dollars would lose the State! – ¡Mil millones de dólares perdería el Estado!
Editorial, El Diario: The country is in a moment of great danger, as it is about to lose the fabulous sum of one billion dollars, in a badly conceived, badly built business and due to a series of unforeseen events. The significant sum of money was invested by the State eight years ago. Its name…
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