David Hill reports for The Guardian: Is Bolivia going to frack ‘Mother Earth’? First steps towards producing shale gas meet with increasing concern among Bolivian civil society. The momentum is building. Bolivia’s state oil and gas company YPFB announced in early 2013 it would begin studies to identify shale gas deposits, and in November that…
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Bolivia private sector without agreement on salary increase for 2015
La Prensa reports: DIFFERENCES PRIVATE WITHOUT AGREEMENT ON SALARY The Confederation of Private Employers of Bolivia (CEPB) noted that they don’t know about the wage increase proposal submitted by the industry and asks that the negotiations on this issue be tripartite. The president of the organization that brings together the private sector, Daniel Sanchez, said…
About the long-awaited fiscal pact in Bolivia
An Editorial from El Diario about one of the top priorities in Bolivia’s development: About the fiscal pact Under this item the inescapable premise is that without this agreement, autonomy is not possible, even if it appears in the Constitution. The autonomous governments are not possible without the necessary resources. This pact since its start…
What are exactly the thirteen points in the Bolivia-Chile agenda?
Bolivia has a serious and long-lasting pending issue with Chile. The following is from El Diario and highlights the 13 point agenda that Bolivia has been conducting with Chile, in the last few years: The thirteen points Bolivia-Chile Here are the 13 points of negotiation between Bolivia and Chile. Point 6, maritime theme was excluded…
Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain
El Diario reports: Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain Bolivia in 2014, received in remittances the sum of $1,163.6 million dollars, a 1.5% lower amount as compared to 2013, when Bolivia received $1,181.8 million dollars, according to the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB). According to a report from this institution, the decrease…
Bolivia’s current president now wants to grab the $$ of OUR Pension!
Roberto Ortiz: Evo Morales Raids Bolivia’s Pension Pots Third-Term President Targets Retirement Funds to Shore Up Spending In the middle of the previous century, Chilean Harvard-trained economist José Piñera Echenique came up with a private pensions fund system, implemented in Chile for the first time in 1980. The scheme, based on personal contributions to savings…
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