Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: Are we a rich country? Who was the one who said to the head of the regime that we are no longer a poor country and that, therefore, the non governmental organizations (NGOs) have no place in Bolivia? Whoever he was, deserves a resounding reprieve because economic growth of…
Tag: Ochlocracy
Are we encouraged to save under the Bolivian banking system?
Lidia Mamani reports for Pagina Siete: IT IS THE SECOND REGULATION OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES ACT Government will define the rates that banks pay savers The standard will set new passive rates for people who have savings and term deposits (DPF), which are currently set by the authorities. Government will define passive interest rates that…
Bolivian legal and informal economies… along with ochlocratic rulings…
Great enlightening article that portrays our Bolivia. Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Differential Yearbook The 21st Century Newsletter has tested a novel ‘differential Yearbook’, a balance which leaves 2013 in the legal sector of the economy and also the illegal. According to the American economist Peter Andreas, to discuss economics only looking at the…
Ruling against illegal take overs is for real? part of a campaign? payoff?
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: DERIVE STANDARD TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES Senate approves law against subjugation The Senate last night passed the Bill against land take overs and was derived to the lower House for examination and treatment. The Senator of the movement toward socialism (MAS), David Sanchez, reported that the maximum sanction against…
An intolerant, unilateral, demagogue Bolivian gov
ANF reports on current gov’s intolerance due to its totalitarian style… GOVERNMENT EXPELLED THE DANISH NGO “IBIS” FROM BOLIVIA IBIS worked in recent years with organizations such as the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of the Qullasuyu (Conamaq) and the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (Cidob), whose members would have been RECEIVING funding and…
Where did they go?! corruption or plain ineptitude of current gov?
ANF reports: GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS NO INVENTORY OF TOTAL SEIZED ITEMS The annual report of the Ministry of Government does not consider assets confiscated in the departments of Potosí and Oruro. La Paz, Dec. 19 (ANF)-Government Minister Carlos Romero, recognized that to date there is no full record of all those goods seized…
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