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…

Bolivians working abroad effort: one billion dollars!!

Important contributor and not acknowledged by current central government, are the remittances to the Bolivian economy. From El Diario: Santa Cruz information reveals a million beneficiaries “Family remittances” sent to the country went up to a billion dollars in 2013 In the year 2001, Bolivia received by that concept $100 million dollars and in present…

Bolivian central gov’s aggression still unsolved: TIPNIS – Chaparina

A good editorial from El Deber: Chaparina, new guidelines September will mark two years of violent police repression against the marchers in the Beni town of Chaparina, against Tipnis defenders, but there is still no guilty parties found. We still remember the Vice President of the State say that he knows who gave the order…

We are majority

Carlos Cordero writes in El Deber: We are majority The final 2012 census data is made public nine months after the socio-demographic information was retrieved and quickly caused controversy along and across the country, as well as confusion in our leaders and all kinds of babbling in Indigenismo ideologues. While the country reacted outraged by…