Confirmed! Chinese company provides deplorable conditions to Bolivian workers!

evo with his demagogue, bad mouthing western companies, has now brought Chinese to work in Bolivia. Not only our biodiversity is endangered as Chinese promote killing of jaguars for their tooth, but also treat poorly Bolivian workers. It is infuriating to see this, under the “socialist/populist” coca caudillo regime. He made sure he controls the…

Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain

El Diario reports: Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain Bolivia in 2014, received in remittances the sum of $1,163.6 million dollars, a 1.5% lower amount as compared to 2013, when Bolivia received $1,181.8 million dollars, according to the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB). According to a report from this institution, the decrease…

Bolivian Labor 101: More qualified, less paid: the new labor reality

Fernanda Wanderley writes in Pagina Siete: More qualified, less paid: the new labor reality Latin America is experiencing a time of unprecedented economic boom. Bolivia is no exception. In this context. expanding employment and wages, in coordination with the increase in spending and public investment, resulted in the reduction of poverty and income inequality in…

Unemployment hits hard our young professionals

Yesterday most of the world celebrated Labor day, today I wanted to share an article that is shocking, depressing and hard to revert situation: Bolivian young professionals face underemployment, and/or unemployment. Bolivia does not elude what is happening around the world. Ruy D’Alencar writes for El Deber: Short, from La Paz, uses dreadlocks in his…