Jaime Dunn, El Deber: Popular Capitalism: A call for a Bolivia of owners, not proletarians There is a powerful bond that unites us as Bolivians, a common interest that arises spontaneously, without coordination or obligation. It is as if an invisible force organized us and prompted us to act individually and collectively. This common interest…
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Bolivia And Socialism: My Experiences
From Being Libertarian: I’ve lived in third world socialist Bolivia before. In short, it was unpleasant. I saw thousands begging and going hungry. People would just pull their pants down and defecate right in the streets. And no one paid them any mind because they didn’t have toilets either. I saw people every day that…
Beware of private property
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Beware of private property Seventy years lasted the commitment of the Soviets to eliminate private property and impose communism. In the end, private property was the force that defeated the ‘socialist motherland’. Mafias conformed by former hierarchs control the spoils of what had been a superpower, which now has…
evo MUST NOT get away with this: Business confiscation law
A worrisome yet superbly-written Editorial by Pagina Siete: Business confiscation law President Evo Morales feels compelled, every 1st of May, to make a “gift” to the workers. In this order, he has made a long series of nationalizations (except the railroads, which are in the hands of the Venezuelan businessman Carlos Gil), and has announced…
Again! Bolivian gov’s ineptitude aims to put at risk business property … WTH!?
El Diario reports: Legal standard puts at risk business property • The private sector is in emergency due to the approval of the Social Enterprises bill in the Chamber of Deputies. CEPB President Ronald Nostas said that it is unacceptable and irrational to establish a legal causal when delay in the payment of services, wages…
Will justice prevail? How expensive it gets not to have a solid economic policy in Bolivia
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: A fireproof test If there is or there is no legal assurances in the country, will surely be known now, with the decision of Justice in favor of La Paz factory SOBOCE by the case of the expropriation of shares of the Chuquisaca Fancesa cement factory. The mentioned decision…
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