Bolivian taxes 101

Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes for Los Tiempos: Taxes The State is the common house and, as all home, need money to support itself. That is the simplest explanation for the existence of taxes or taxes that are not anything other than the payments we make the inhabitants of the common house to keep it…

A Bolivian cynic government!

HoyBolivia.com reports: Costas: Government manages with a high degree of cynicism Governor Rubén Costas said that the national Government accuses the [Catholic] bishops in the theft of the jewels of the Virgin of Copacabana, in an attempt to cause controversy and cover the real problems of the country. “As sometimes it [the government] disorients, even…

Bolivian sociopolitical conundrum: indigenous doctrines, decolonization?!

H. C. F. Mansilla superbly describes our lives, from El Dia: Decolonization and the sanctity of hatred The doctrines of decolonization in the Andean area see themselves as theoretical frameworks, basically progressives and leftists, consecrated at the same time to the socialist thought and the revitalization of a communitarianism humanist immersed in pre-Hispanic indigenous traditions….

Bolivia to continue to experience growth inertia

Carlos Schlink writes in El Deber: The inertia of the growth will continue The Bolivian economy has had positive and negative developments. Until end of year [2013] projections are that it will continue the inertia of the growth, but softer. It is projected that the GDP won’t grow beyond 4.5 percent because regulations that want…