El Deber reports: Banking system to contribute 6% of profits to social function The cabinet approved a decree. Multiple banks will have to use 6% of their profits. Asoban sees trouble. The cabinet yesterday approved a supreme decree approving the participation of 6% of the profits of the bank, to be used to fund credit…
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Our Bolivian elderly and The Global AgeWatch Index 2014
Bolivia went down to the 51st position from 46th last year. . . . . . . . . http://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/population-ageing-data/country-ageing-data/?country=Bolivia%2B%2528Plurinational%2BState%2Bof%2529 Bolivia’s stronghold regarding the elderly is their families. Bolivians in general like to live with their elderly, few of us end up in nursing homes. Over the sat ten years, it…
Mutun, a constant reminder of current gov’s inefficiency!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Mutún gasometer The Mutún steel project is not working, it is true, but plays an irreplaceable role: used to know how much natural gas is available to Bolivians after the demand for Argentina and Brazil has been serviced. The “gas war” that was fought earlier this century, has…
Enough with blunt out lies and cheap demagogue of current gov!
Pagina Siete Reports: ELECTRICITY Analyst: We can not be an energy hub The former Minister of Hydrocarbons, Carlos Miranda Pacheco, yesterday questioned the argument that the country will become an energy hub because electricity generation is minimal in relation to the countries of the region. “To talk about a medium size energy hub is ridiculous…
Catholic bishops condemns ruling political party’s instruction to direct vote: well done!!!
Reports Ruy D’Alencar for El Deber: 2014 ELECTION Bishops condemn the instructed/directed vote and the MAS attacks them In its second statement, the Catholic hierarchy calls for denouncing pressures during the suffrage. A spokesman from the MAS accused them of campaigning for Tuto and Samuel. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, through the secretary of…
Bolivians should not surrender, we must put up a fight against the ruling coca grower!
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: Put up a fight any way you can If there are only three weeks to the general elections and surveys have been frozen with most irrefutable victory by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), it is best not to look at them-nor believe surveys and even fight biting. If after…
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