El Diario reports: “Production tests” continue Production costs will decide profitability of gas extraction, according to analyst Mauricio Medinaceli Several experts and opposition leaders questioned the insufficient information offered by the Government on the gas that will produce the Boyuy X2 well in Tarija, for which they demand transparency to know if the drilling of…
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Bolivian coca/cocaine 101 … under evo: The failed Bolivian ‘model’
Susana Seleme writes in Eju.tv: The failed Bolivian ‘model’ “The world is a round mass that ferments. Ferments through oil … Ferments through gases. Ferment through the web. But there is an ingredient that is faster than the others and everyone wants. And it’s the coca. That plant that crosses the Atlantic like an elastic…
Bolivia loses 11% of GDP due to maritime confinement
El Diario reports: Anual average Bolivian exporters must face a cost 33.2% higher than the regional average TRANSPORTATION EXPLAINS MAJOR LOSSES INCURRED BY BOLIVIA FOR ITS CENTENARY LANDLOCKED. A work done by economist Rodrigo Burgoa found that the maritime enclosure that Bolivia suffers since the invasion of its coast in February 1879 has a negative…
7 thousand hectares in Bolivia affected by adverse weather events
Fresh Plaza reports, picture from Los Tiempos: 300 hectares of banana have been lost The department’s tropical region has been affected by heavy rains and the southern cone by droughts. According to reports, both natural phenomena have damaged almost 10 thousand hectares of cultivation: 7 thousand hectares of fruit trees have been affected in Chapare,…
External support to 21F
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: It is unknown to anyone that the international community has extensive knowledge of the results of the referendum on February 21, 2016 and that this process was viewed with great sympathy, because it was about consolidating the existing democracy in the country. The expressions of support for…
Judge ratifies prison for two fang traffickers
El Diario reports: The illegal trade of fangs in most cases occurs through the internet. The fifth Criminal Investigation Judge of the city of La Paz, Juan Carlos Moltabán, ratified the three-year prison sentence against two Argentine citizens, convicted of trafficking jaguar tusks and cougars, the Environment Ministry reported. According to the government entity, the…
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