Juan Leon writes in Pagina Siete: Washing dirty linen at home Brazil’s Lula Da Silva was at the dawn of the Bolivian process of change, one of the most supportive of the Government of Evo Morales’ political allies. The ideological affinity, strengthened by the origins of the union leadership of both rulers, generated a kind…
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Another Bolivian gov scandal! more corruption!? Beni’s ghost town
El Dia reports: According to the CSUTCB Indigenous Fund gave money to a ghost town They gave Bs630.000 to an uninhabited community in Beni. Call for investigation. The Campesino Workers Trade Union Confederation of Bolivia (CSUTCB) verified that the Indigenous Development Fund for Native Farmers (Fondioc) disbursed Bs630,000 for a productive project in a community…
The exploitation of non-renewable resources under current Bolivian gov
An Editorial from El Diario: The exploitation of non-renewable resources A picture of mining, hydrocarbons and “industrialization” shows no results as positive as we would like, so the bonanza disseminated by government spokesmen would be in question. In connection with tin – traditional source of income of the country things are not going well. Huanuni…
What to do with the informal economy that destroys Bolivia?
An Editorial from El Diario: Informal economy destroys the country Informal economy or for better words, illicit trade, has been since ancient times, contrary to the interests of nations. Its validity has led the best efforts, dedication to work and production to faint, placing the validity of the convictions on decline or weaken laws; finally,…
Sean Penn punked Ego, a coca grower who’s the occasional president…
Written by Shiryn Ghermezian, from The Algemeiner: Jacob Ostreicher, the Orthodox Jewish American who was held captive in Bolivia for three years, on Sunday revealed details for the first time on how actor Sean Penn helped bring him back to the U.S. last December and personally nursed him to mental and physical health. “I spent…
Usurpation and tyranny
Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: Usurpation and tyranny The ‘Bolivarian’ regimes seem to know the address of Simon Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura: “Nothing is as dangerous as letting stay the same citizen on power for a long time. The people become accustomed to obey and he gets used to command them; that…
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