El Deber: The FATF rating will be decisive to guarantee the credibility of the entire public and private financial system and the country as a whole. Next November, the Fourth Round of Evaluations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will take place, which will establish a rating on the actions of the Bolivian State…
Tag: Money laundering
Santa Cruz, Bolivia experiences uncontrolled deforestation!
Santa Cruz de la Sierra was considered the fastest growing city in South America (70s – 80s) and as such now carries the more entrepreneurial society in Bolivia. Santa Cruz Department is credited with the production of close to 70% of the food in Bolivia … nevertheless, it is also striking to see how weather…
With Its Unbanked Majority, Bolivia Can Gain Much From Adopting Bitcoin
Adam Dubove writes for The Cointelegraph: With Its Unbanked Majority, Bolivia Can Gain Much From Adopting Bitcoin A country with a high-rate of the unbanked, a large informal economy and a tumultuous history of inflation sounds like a perfect scenario for Bitcoin and cyrpyocurrencies to thrive. However, a quick glimpse on Bitcoin-related groups on social…
USA fails Bolivia in the drug trafficking war, March 2012
2012 INCSR: Introduction BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Report March 7, 2012 Legislative Basis for the INCSR The Department of State’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has been prepared in accordance with section 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the…
What do we have in common with Cuba, Iran and North Korea? take a guess!
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF and in Spanish GAFI) is a very reputable institution and has been monitoring our fairly new “economy,” El Deber reports: Bolivia and Cuba remain without complying with the norms against money-laundering Bolivia and Cuba are on the list of countries that do not meet international standards against money laundering…
Money laundering & inflation against Bolivian society
This cartoon is from El Diario, November 30, 2011. It portrays how much money laundering, and narco-traffick are becoming a real nuisance and are also more widely perceived by Bolivian society; out there for anyone to see… In the cartoon the person is pointing and saying: “these buildings are known as ‘washing buildings’ they whiten…
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