While Bolivia has been, for the last nine years, under an unprecedented economic boom, we have suffered the worst possible government. Leaded by a coca grower leader who obeys/takes care of the illegal coca crop growers of the Chapare. There has been wastefulness of around $120 BILLION dollars and this is a tiny $300 million…
Tag: Ochlocracy
25% price fall of Santa Cruz soybeans, ton is priced at $340
El Diario reports: International prices on six basic food are down: 25% price fall of Santa Cruz soybeans, ton is priced at $340 The price of soybeans presented a downward trend during the last month as a result of a global oversupply and reduced Chinese demand for the oilseed. According to a cruceño producer, the…
Bolivia needs results/support to producers, not cheap demagogue!
Pagina Siete reports: REPORTING FOUR PROBLEMS Camelid producers have no market Camelid producers of La Paz department say that they lack market for marketing their products, so they prefer to take them to Peru. “We as camelid producers do not have a market. In the Province Franz Tamayo, near the border with Peru, the brothers…
UN human rights commission cannot work in Bolivia
Correo del Sur reports: QHARA QHARA FILES HARASSMENT COMPLAINT IN QUILA QUILA Unions deny passage to a UN commission A human rights commission of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner was prevented yesterday [09/09/2014] to enter the territory of the Nation Qhara Qhara Suyu by a group of affiliated unions in the site, yesterday reported…
Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question
IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…
Current president does not hold it together…
Humberto Vacaflor describes what is going on under the electoral campaign, he writes in El Diario: Campaign Errors To arrest Mario Orellana was clumsy by the MAS. Worse still, it was a mistake on the [election] campaign. Moreover, it was a demonstration of lack of coordination in the bowels of the political instrument of liberation….
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