Cosmo Sanderson reports for Latin Lawyer: Covid-19: reporting on a crisis A tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration has refused to extend a deadline for Bolivia to submit its statement of defence in an investment treaty claim, after the state argued that the coronavirus pandemic had made work on the submission “virtually impossible.” In…
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Bolivia’s largest attorney firm adds first non-family partners
Thomas Muskett-Ford reports for Latin Lawyer: Bolivia’s largest firm adds first non-family partners Moreno Baldivieso Estudio de Abogados has promoted six lawyers who are not from the Moreno family to the partnership, shaking up one of the region’s more traditional legal markets in an effort to address retention concerns. Moreno Baldivieso promoted Miguel Angel Jemio,…
Two laws are put forward for the agricultural sector
El Deber reports: Two laws are put forward for the agricultural sector Plural Economy Commission of Deputies improves two projects. After more than a month that the government would prioritize six draft land laws, at the Agricultural Summit committed in April, the Plural Economy Commission prepares the first two standards for submission to the plenary…
The Bolivian coca-ine reality show
During the last six years, the coca/cocaine industry has permeated our society, has changed our pacific lifestyle and threatens to become our worst nightmare: This is from El Diario, March 13, 2012: A full airplane is trying to lift-off on its way to Austria, it has the label “austere coca grower entourage” Current Bolivian president…
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