Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 46.8, making its economy the 163rd freest in the 2015 Index. Its overall score is 1.6 points worse than last year, with notable deteriorations in six of the 10 economic freedoms including financial freedom, investment freedom, and labor freedom. Bolivia is ranked 26th out of 29 countries in the South…
Tag: Ochlocracy
Undisputed truth: the masismo has managed to drive our exports down!
Opinion reports: Bolivian exports fall 29.6 percent OPINION.- The country’s exports in the first half of 2015 fell by 29.6 percent compared to those recorded in the same period of 2014. Between January and June 2014 export earnings totaled $6,657 million dollars while in the same period this year the amount reached $4,687 million dollars,…
Tarija also wasted money under the MAS: Oliva claims that the MAS spent on snacks Bs39 MM
El Diario reports: Government of Tarija: Oliva claims that the MAS spent on snacks Bs39 MM The governor of Tarija, Adrian Oliva, reported that during the four years that The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) managed the department of Tarija government and spent Bs39 million Bolivians in snacks, and other expenses which he described as “waste”…
Worth a Potosi
Radio Fides published: Worth a Potosi By Carlos A. Quiroga For over four centuries, the city of Potosi has been synonymous with wealth. In Spanish there is a saying, “Vale un Potosí”, or “to be worth a Potosi”, used when speaking of something of great value. [cartoon is from El Deber, July 31, 2015. The…
Bolivian Government Ends Talks with Opposition Group…?!
Be careful with what you read on the web, there are some sites, purchased to our expense and to favor the ruling government, such as the one below: I include first my comment in that site, so that the world knows: Bolivian Government Ends Talks with Opposition Group Talks began Sunday to resolve a number…
Another “accomplishment” of the coca grower presidency… WTH?!
ANF reports in Pagina Siete: Foreign Trade Bolivia goes from exporter to importer of wood Since 2010, exports of wood and articles experienced a steady decline in the value of their sales, as opposed to imports that kept growing and exceeded exports in 2014 valued at $9 million dollars. The data show that from January…
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