ANF reports via El Deber: Bolivia with $52.5 million dollars trade deficit in 10 years of potato production During 2016, 91% of the imported volume of potatoes and their derivatives came from Peru. The purchases were mostly fresh potatoes. Including potatoes for sowing, fresh, fried, dehydrated, starch and potato flour, between 2010 and 2016, the…
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Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017 for Bolivia
A report made by the World Economic Forum: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017 for Bolivia [To understand how to read this two-page report, please read first the description and then look at that portion of the report] LEFT-HAND PAGE The left-hand page is divided into three sections: 1. Key indicators This section presents several…
Abortion bill makes unlikely alliance of Bolivian clergy, feminists
Catholic News Agency reports: Abortion bill makes unlikely alliance of Bolivian clergy, feminists Sucre, Bolivia, Mar 27, 2017 / 03:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A bill in Bolivia that would allow abortions only for certain groups of women is uniting unlikely groups in opposition to the policy – namely, Bolivian bishops and pro-choice feminists. Abortion is…
Growing coca in Bolivia polluted our environment!
This cartoon from El Diario, depicts two people talking about questioning the fact that growing coca goes against Mother Nature. Coca crops, leaves, is used to make cocaine: damage sour soil, causes deforestation and lack of water. On top of that this government also threatens our environment y trying to push a dam in El Bala…
Bolivia is becoming like Somalia or Afghanistan, cocaine is taking over!
This cartoon is from Pagina Siete, 03/06/2017: It shows, a coca grower desire to pay an annual tax of only Bs50, less than $10 dollars! Somalia and/or Afghanistan have fallen to the control of small groups who with guns and money do as they [lease in those countries … similar thing is happening in Bolivia….
Bolivia’s coca grower caudillo president Nearly Doubled Land Allowed for Coca
Voice of America reports: Bolivia Set to Nearly Double Land Allowed for Coca A woman chews coca leaves during an event commemorating the tradition of coca leaf chewing in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 11, 2017. Coca has been cultivated in the Bolivian Andes since at least the Inca era. [people forget that the Inca and…
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