Bolivia’s naive foreign policy

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Naive foreign policy Bolivia now has deteriorated relations with USA, Brazil, Argentina and, one might say, also Peru, for the suspension of the presidential meeting that was to take place last week. The U.S. Charge d’affaires [DCM], Harry Mammott, just left for his country “for personal reasons”, which means…

Bolivia to lose its comparative and natural advantage on Quinoa!!

Gregory Beltran reports for La Prensa: EUROPE, AMERICA, AFRICA AND EVEN CHINA MAKE EXPERIMENTS More countries compete with the Andean quinoa The country is making efforts, but is about to lose the comparative advantage of the product. Quinoa worldwide crops expands rapidly and threatens the productive supremacy that Bolivia and Peru have so far, according…

Bolivian central government’s blatant errors on foreign policy

El Diario’s editorial reflects our disgrace of having a central government that has NO capacity at all… Blatant errors of foreign policy Wrong and successive steps of the Government in international politics and, in particular, with reference to relations with Chile, never cease to cause concern, but even amazement on diplomatic circles. That the case…

Early in 2013, and Bolivia continues to scare away private investment!

This is a well-written Editorial from El Diario: Unexpected “nationalization” The unexpected “nationalization” of Elecropaz (La Paz), Elfeo (Oruro), Manager of Empresas S.A. and service company (Edeser), belonging to Iberdrola, with predominant Spanish capitals, comes in addition to previous nationalization of the Transportadora de Electricidad firm, of the same origin, made eight months ago and…