Editorial, El Dia: As the government runs out of money, its defects begin to become more clearly visible: there is no diesel, debts increase, there is a shortage of dollars, the inability to attend to emergencies such as drought, lack of water, serious fires and political discrepancies also arise that in the past were resolved…
Tag: inefficiency
Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience
[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…
CORRUPTION 101: MAS impunity – Impunidad masista
Wilson Aguilar reports for Los Tiempos: At least 15 cases of corruption by MAS continue with impunity At least 15 cases of alleged corruption that occurred in the MAS government remain unclear. An expert assures that crimes of this type do not prescribe. In recent days, members of the MAS, including Evo Morales, questioned about…
2014 food inflation in Bolivia
El Diario reports: 2014 Jubileo Foundation Evaluation: Food inflation reached 6.9% in 2014, average food prices rose by 6.9%, according to a report published yesterday by the Jubileo Foundation and released by Radio Fides. According to the data, this rate is lower than that achieved in 2013, when the variation was 10.4% and higher than…
Bolivians working abroad effort: one billion dollars!!
Important contributor and not acknowledged by current central government, are the remittances to the Bolivian economy. From El Diario: Santa Cruz information reveals a million beneficiaries “Family remittances” sent to the country went up to a billion dollars in 2013 In the year 2001, Bolivia received by that concept $100 million dollars and in present…
Bolivia: Subventions 101, irresponsible and unsustainable demagogue
An important Editorial analysis from El Diario: Subvention, a great dilemma The Government, since the damn “gasolinazo” [Bolivian slang of a proposed high increase in the prices of gasoline, diesel and liquid gas] of December 2010, has left in abeyance concerns by that measure, since the determination to abolish subsidies was overturned, it opened new…
Bolivian Thoughts 