Pagina Siete: The underemployment shoots up to 17% and affects 597 thousand people in the country People who are underemployed do not contribute to the AFPs, do not have a permanent job with a contract and do not receive social benefits. Until the third quarter, the unemployment rate reached 10.76%, according to the INE. La…
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Moody’s cuts Bolivia to B2
Daniel Bases, Latin Finance: Ratings agency cites erosion of fiscal and currency reserve buffers, weak hydrocarbon sector Moody’s on Tuesday cut Bolivia’s foreign currency sovereign credit rating further deeper into junk territory, reducing the rating to B2 from B1, citing diminishing fiscal and foreign currency reserves. At the same time the rating was lowered, the…
¿Desidia legislativa o corrupción? – Legislative neglect or corruption?
Editorial, El Diario: Foreign loans without legislative approval A lot of time goes by in which the Legislature stops foreign credits only due to the decision of a parliamentary majority composed of masista members willing to boycott all government action with a view to the purchase of equipment, implements, supplies and medicines to combat the…
Reconstruir – Rebuild
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Evo fell, but evism remained In November 2019, the MAS, headed by Evo Morales, when it had already ruled the country for fourteen years, was not only characterized by having arranged and administered more money than all the governments in the history of Bolivia, but also by other aspects that were…
The failure of the Plurinational State – El fracaso del Estado Plurinacional
Sergio Medinaceli writes in Pagina Siete: The failure of the Plurinational State “He who begins badly ends badly.” The Constituent Assembly called in 2006 for the total reform of the Political Constitution of the State begins with expectation the change that the country required due to the exhaustion of the political party system; the citizen…
Bolivia 101: New Constitution – Nueva Constitución
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: A new Constitution, as a national necessity The national and democratic insurrectionary uprising of November last year was not only intended to end a populist government, lacking the minimum historical orientation, but also to annul the current feudal and colonial Political Constitution of the State (2009) and replace it…
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