BOLIVIA, DOCUMENTARY, FEDERICO ESTOL, LA PAZ, PHOTOBOOK Written by Hannah Abel-Hirsch for the British Journal of Photography: All images © Federico Estol. Federico Estol empowers the vilified shoeshiners of La Paz, Bolivia, turning their working lives into a fictional tale of superheroes This article was originally published in issue #7893 of British Journal of Photography. Visit the…
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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…
evo’s new master does as it pleases! Bolivian Labor and Environment under peril by China!
El Diario reports: Chinese companies violate labor regulations in the country Several Chinese companies were reported to the government authorities about the recurrent breach of labor laws in Bolivia by Chinese citizens. In many cases, such as the one in Chuquisaca, where Asian personnel have exercised violent actions against workers, the same applies to environmental…
The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS, for the wrong reasons!
El Dia reports: The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS Factory workers dismiss the MAS as an instrument of defense of labor rights and discuss the formation of a political party for 2019 to the mistreatment received by the Government in recent years. That possibility and other issues are discussed in a national expanded…
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…
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