El Diario reports: Lack of public policies Forum proposes five suggestions for industrial development • Recommended to improve productivity levels of manufacturing to reverse technological backwardness • Experts analyzed conditions for the integral development of the sector At the end of the Forum “The main engine of economic growth. Industrial productivity. Current situation and outlook in…
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Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge
CNN reports: Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)A spectacled bear who had been brutally beaten has been given a second chance at life by Bolivian environmental authorities. [to watch the video, use the link at the bottom, thank you] The bear will soon be on his way…
Bolivia must diversify its economy and production
El Diario reports: Bolivia must diversify its economy and production • Representatives and experts from the World Bank, IDB, CAF and ECLAC, meeting at the Government Palace, recommended to the national authorities to take prudential measures in economic issues, in addition to seeking other options in the international oil crisis and to evaluate issues of…
Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom
Reuters reports through Yahoo news: Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia and Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Sunday they had signed a provisional agreement for the construction of $300 million nuclear complex in the Andean nation. Under the terms of the accord, which needs…
Due to lack of coherent policies, the castana [chestnut] market faces saturation
Roxana Villa reports for El Deber: Chestnut crisis facing market saturation The markets for the Bolivian product [castaña] are closing, due to the import of nearly 6,000 tons of Brazilian almond. The sector calls for more regulation. Despite the $192 million dollars generated by the export of chestnut [bertholletia excelsa] in 2015, the northern Amazon…
Worldwide embarrassment: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals
CNN reports: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. First, the Bolivian leader had to accept defeat in a referendum making his current presidential term his last, and now he is at the center of a scandal that reads like a Bolivian…
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