Over the last eight years, Santa Cruz remained as the oasis, the hope that the ruling ochlocracy was going to be restrained… it was with great disappointment that the cruceño leadership surrendered to the coca-grower and populist political party… The following excerpts and links for full articles in Spanish, describe the sentiment of those Bolivians…
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Current Bolivian pluri-multi-State is not to be trusted…
ANSA reports from Sao Paulo for Pagina Siete: Brazil SABOIA said that Bolivia “is the far West” The diplomat Eduardo Saboia, who helped the illegal leak of Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto of the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, said yesterday that Bolivia for Brazilian entrepreneurs is the “far West” and the more difficult of…
A corrupt person or a corrupt structure in today’s Bolivia?
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: A delinquent syndrome We were accustomed to live with corruption of public officials, but until recently it was relatively easy to distinguish between a corrupt official and a corrupt structure. When a “deal” was discovered, the image of the Government was affected as a whole, no doubt but it…
Is there legal certainty in today’s Bolivia?
A sound Editorial from El Deber: The legal assurances One of the little observed consequences of the rise of prices of raw materials exported by Bolivia is that in the country, there is now the petty idea that the economy can grow without the need for private investment. The bonanza had other consequences, like the…
Bolivian gov issues bonds paying high rates and does not use CAF low interest loans!!
Marco Chuquimia reports for El Deber: THIS YEAR THE COMMITMENT OF THE AGENCY IS TO GIVE $500 MILLION DOLLARS CAF ensures that the country will not use 100% of their credit The private sector receives about $100 million and the remaining are for public investment projects, roads mainly, according to the entity. The country receives…
Current Bolivian president wants to remain ‘Ad vitam aeternam’!
Caros Cordero writes in El Deber: The lifetime Presidency It is not the first time that President Evo Morales says that the minority peasant indigenous sector of the country (see the results of the 2012 census in this regard), through the political instrument known as the MAS, has come to the Government Palace to stay…
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