From Bloomberg BusinessWeek, although over a year old of being written, it holds fully: Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters By Nathan Gill and Veronica Navarro Espinosa January 24, 2013 Bolivia’s first international bond sale in almost a century is turning into a cautionary tale for fixed-income investors trying to bolster…
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Sean Penn punked Ego, a coca grower who’s the occasional president…
Written by Shiryn Ghermezian, from The Algemeiner: Jacob Ostreicher, the Orthodox Jewish American who was held captive in Bolivia for three years, on Sunday revealed details for the first time on how actor Sean Penn helped bring him back to the U.S. last December and personally nursed him to mental and physical health. “I spent…
Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York
Joseph Berger writes in The New York Times: Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York A Brooklyn flooring contractor and father of five, who was jailed in Bolivia for 18 months until the intervention of the actor Sean Penn lessened his punishment to confinement under house arrest, has been spirited…
Bolivian justice… from bad to worse… thanks to exiting ruling ochlocracy!
From http://www.hoybolivia.com Östreicher lawyer declared him as disappeared Yimmy Montaño, lawyer of Jacob Östreicher, ruled out this Monday the possibility of escape of his client and said that his client never expressed the desire to leave Bolivia because he intended to prove his innocence. “We are concerned about this situation, we have brought to the…
Bolivian justice drowning as a result of central government interference!
Jimmy Ortiz Saucedo writes for Los Tiempos: Justice of the MAS does not hold water In July I wrote an article entitled “Dangerous experiment with the Bolivian justice”, where I said: “is very irresponsible to play with justice! In it lies freedom guarantees, the goods and democracy of a civilized country”. And it was really…
Current Bolivia corruption MUST trigger a necessary ministerial/cabinet change
Aldo Luna’s analysis in El Diario, should trigger appropriate and speedy reaction of current Bolivia’s central government: Necessary ministerial change Citizenship is concerned by the recent discovery of acts of extortion and corruption organized in upper echelons of the Government, which put at risk the democratic process that much cost to the country. It is…
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