Andres Oppenheimer writes for Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, please click here: When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited a number of Latin American countries last week, he made several speeches denouncing the dictatorships of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. But, regrettably, he didn’t say a word about Bolivia. It wasn’t an oversight. The Trump…
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Food security comes to an end [evo continues to fail!!]
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet and this related link: The offered food security by the current government has ended in a thunderous failure, with no possibility of recovery, which seriously affects the health of the Bolivian people. The production of essential foods for family consumption has fallen abruptly, while the production of…
World Bank lowers Bolivia’s growth expectations
El Deber reports: ECONOMY In January 2019, the international agency projected a growth of 4.3%, yesterday reduced it to 4% Deceleration is a problem that has not been overcome The World Bank (WB) decreased, in its latest report, the projection of growth for Bolivia in 2019. In January, it had foreseen an expansion of 4.3%…
Bolivia has the second most expensive mobile internet
El Deber reports: A global study conducted by the price comparison website Cable.co.uk revealed that in Bolivia much more is paid per gigabyte (GB) used in mobile devices, compared to the rest of the countries in South America. The average price of 1 GB of mobile data costs US $ 8.51 in the country, while…
Bolivia’s Problem Is Macroeconomics, Not Socialism [evo is the F problem! with his lies, corruption, incompetence!]
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo has manipulated macroeconomic statistics, has destroyed the INE, inserting acolytes that will tamper data and use other “indicators” to produce the populist mirage … After 13 years of absolute control of ALL State powers, after receiving loan forgiveness from the international community, after extraordinarily high international prices on all our commodity…
Bolivia Corruption Rank [under evo, the lowest ever, as expected!]
Pagina Siete reports, excerpts follow: … Bolivia obtained a score of 29 out of 100, where zero is very corrupt and 100 is very transparent, the country is ranked 132. … https://www.paginasiete.bo/economia/2019/1/30/bolivia-obtiene-su-peor-calificacion-sobre-percepcion-de-corrupcion-de-ultimos-siete-anos-207500.html Trading Economist reports: Bolivia is the 132 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by…
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