Nicómedes Sejas writes in El Diario: The maritime lawsuit before the ICJ, a defeatist strategy Dr. Liborio Uño soon will present a new version of an important research with the title: “True maritime demand for Bolivia against Chile.” This 500-page book, documented in official texts of Chile and Bolivia and studies of renowned researchers, suggests…
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Bolivian government will NOT give incentives to the private sector! WTH!
El Diario reports: There will be no incentives for the private sector in the country • Executive rejected the application of investment inducements to this sector within the productive dialogue • The Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia admitted “conflicting positions” in the dialogue with authorities of the Government • The wage issue is considered…
Bolivian gov flunked: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars
Pagina Siete reports via hoybolivia.com: Exports fall further and trade deficit soars The value of domestic exports until July continued its downward trend and decreased by 26% compared to 2015, while the trade deficit soared, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). The figures show that in the first seven months of last year sales…
The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS, for the wrong reasons!
El Dia reports: The manufacturing sector expressed discontent with the MAS Factory workers dismiss the MAS as an instrument of defense of labor rights and discuss the formation of a political party for 2019 to the mistreatment received by the Government in recent years. That possibility and other issues are discussed in a national expanded…
Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests
Ryan Dube reports for The Wall Street Journal: Bolivia Aims to Boost Mining Oversight After Deadly Protests Cabinet of President Evo Morales approves measures that would increase regulation, ban use of dynamite in demonstrations. Bolivia’s government on Thursday moved to increase control over mining cooperatives in the wake of violent protests that resulted in the…
Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: Drought: CEPB says that lacked seriousness in decrees After nearly a month of the approval of 12 decrees issued by President Evo Morales to address the effects of drought, the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs of Bolivia (CEPB) described them as “unserious” and “irrelevant”. Warned that failure to take serious action…
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