Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The wild capitalism is consolidated in Bolivia While Bolivian analysts engage in empirical speculation about abstract concepts, the country’s economy advances in irrepressible form by way of capitalist development, although most is wild capitalism than a capitalism with maturity and reduces the sacrifice of laborers and workers in general….
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Bolivian justice… from bad to worse… thanks to exiting ruling ochlocracy!
From http://www.hoybolivia.com Östreicher lawyer declared him as disappeared Yimmy Montaño, lawyer of Jacob Östreicher, ruled out this Monday the possibility of escape of his client and said that his client never expressed the desire to leave Bolivia because he intended to prove his innocence. “We are concerned about this situation, we have brought to the…
Cheap electoral price controls by current Bolivian gov
Roberto Ortiz writes in El Deber: What hides the double bonus President Evo Morales signed on November 20, Supreme Decree 1802, which authorizes the payment of the double bonus to workers in the public and private sector. We must start from the economic statement that a bonus is a salary, as it is part of…
In Bolivia, some “voluntary” contributions just mean mandatory!
Carlos Toranzo writes for Pagina Siete: Voluntary contributions Skin-deep came the abuse of power of the movement toward socialism (MAS) with public servants, as these are forced to “voluntarily” contribute to the governing party, contributing not only to the election campaign, but since entering the official public administration, they must see deducted part of their…
What happened to the corruption control, where is the SAFCO Law?!
Puka Reyesvilla writes in La Prensa: REQUIEM FOR THE SAFCO The origin of the Law of the integrated financial governmental management, started with the Supreme Decree 22407, promulgated by Jaime Paz Zamora in 1990, it ordered the referral of the project to the Congress. The instrument known as SAFCO – of control and governmental management…
Under the shadow of the new “bourgeois and middle class”
Susana Seleme writes in El Deber: The ‘boli-bourgeois’ and the middle class ‘Boli-bourgeois’ are called the hundreds of businessmen, officials and bankers who became the more rich and opulent caste of Venezuela, under the shadow of the ‘socialist-bolivarian’ [from Bolivar] structure of Hugo Chávez (+) and its successor, Nicolás Maduro, via corruption. Bolivia is not a…
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