Banking Law: every man to his own trade

Current Bolivia government knows about this century’s economics as I can write and speak fluently in all the more than thirty indigenous languages of their pluri-multi-nation… Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber: Economists and banking see more risks in law The ‘ceiling and floor’ rates scare industry. The ASFI does not see problems The sole…

Meet the real “self-proclaimed defender of mother nature”

A living oxymoron? a plain demagogue? or someone who just wants to take advantage of power, regardless…? It is not hearsay, it is the same person who uses “concepts” without the slight analysis, distorting everything and sending the worst possible messages… and all of that just because he got the majority of the votes… no…

Bolivia engages in debt at bonanza times…

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Debts at times of bonanza The 2014 campaign has begun. Everything is handled with that in mind. The IDB and CAF presidents had to arrive, to praise the handling of the economy, coinciding with the new sovereign bond placement. The characters have to be first class. Outstanding. The international…

Do Bolivians live in a lying country?… since when?!

Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes in Los Tiempos: Lying Country Talk about the sad role that the National Institute of Statistics (INE) had in the last census is already useless. The INEfficiency of the INE subtracted its credibility, period. From here forward, we will not believe it as before. But, beyond that truth, the truth…

Are there too many impostors in Bolivia?

Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber: Impostors and impostures The saying, “so much falls the drop into stone, until finally breaks it”. And I say, it seems that Bolivians are made of solid stone, because while deluge fall over us, not drops, nothing breaks us. I use the saying figuratively: the drop is an imposture…