Mongabay has released a wonderful story about our biodiversity and wildlife peril … please use this link to read in full and admire those wonderful photos! https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/ Few countries in the tropics have seen trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. Within Bolivia, nearly two-thirds of that loss occurred in…
Tag: government failures
Bolivia has the second most expensive mobile internet
El Deber reports: A global study conducted by the price comparison website Cable.co.uk revealed that in Bolivia much more is paid per gigabyte (GB) used in mobile devices, compared to the rest of the countries in South America. The average price of 1 GB of mobile data costs US $ 8.51 in the country, while…
Chapare, “no man’s land” [evo delivers!]
El Diario reports: According to opponents The ambush of a Umopar patrol, after discovering the airstrip, is a fact that shows the close complicity of coca growers and drug trafficking, says Oscar Ortiz Regardless of the injured personnel, the death of a resident was recorded due to the impact of a gunshot, a fact that…
Indicators for election year [lower than ever in evo’s presidency, yet he continues to misuse our funds …]
Editorial from Pagina Siete, graph from IBCE through Infobae: As it had not happened before, the government has moderated its optimism regarding the economy. During the presentation of the Financial Fiscal Program 2019, the Economy Minister, Luis Arce, has released the word “uncertainty”, although he has attributed it to the international variables that, he said,…
Satellite T. Katari, a white elephant [evo’s waste of funds]
Editorial from El Diario, you can also read our earlier [09/21/2014] post here: A poignant question has been worrying for several years to the opinion of the country: the existence of the Túpac Katari Satellite, bought by the government of President Evo Morales to the Republic of China for just over 300 million dollars. In…
The controversial referendum to revive Bolivia’s Rositas dam
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: China’s loans/investments/contracts in Bolivia are tainted with the obscure relationship the Chinese had with evo, the autocrat. Beginning with the Zapata affaire, the numerous cases of Bolivian personnel being mistreated by Chinese supervisors, the atrocious effect on our biodiversity and wildlife, like the illegal hunting of Bolivian Jaguars for their fangs, the…
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