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…

Tarija’s Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics

EFE reports in Latino Fox News: Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics LA PAZ – The Spanish-born mayor of the southern Bolivian city of Tarija, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, says that the Andean nation “needs to be a solid, institutionally based democracy” and to move away from a pattern in which political parties…

Absurd Bolivian gov demagogue impacts employment!

This El Diario cartoon (09/15/2016) only portrays the crude reality in the Bolivian labor market: Not only companies were forced to shut down their operations due to the disgusting demagogue of current Bolivian government, regarding the imposition to pay a double Christmas bonus. To begin with, our economy has not increased, the perception of liquidity…

Outrageous!! Bolivian gov intends to perpetuate in power, WTH!?

El Diario reports: Opposition lawmakers They intend to modify the CPE intend so that Morales can run again Opposition lawmakers argue that the advertisements to call a new referendum to amend the Constitution of the State (CPE) using the issue of the Fiscal Pact and the redistribution of economic resources, has the real goal of…

Bolivia’s New Mining Laws and The Future of Private Investment

Astrid Hasfura writes in Frontera News: Bolivia’s New Mining Laws and The Future of Private Investment New changes in the mining sector may grant Bolivia further control of the country’s extractive industries, but increasing public expenditures and decreased oil revenues may force the government to open up new opportunities for private investment after all. Since…