ERBOL reports in La Prensa: BANKRUPT POTATO PRODUCERS Santa Cruz. The President of the Federation of vegetable and fruit growers (Fedehfrut), Nue Moron, reported yesterday [11/17/13] that Santa Cruz’s Potato farmers went bankrupt due to the low cost of the tuber in the market and by three frosts that ruined crops. He said that “the…
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Environment and National Parks under peril due to intended oil exploration!
El Diario reports: Jubileo warns conflicts due to oil exploration Specialist argues that for exploration and exploitation it is necessary that the Government conducts a prior consultation to the communities and indigenous peoples, before being declared as [oil, gas] reserves in favor of YPFB. The search for new hydrocarbon resources by Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos…
Bolivia under growing anarchy… thanks to existing ruling ochlocracy!
A description of how anarchy is taking over our nation! Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber: A ‘pest’ consent There was a stir five years ago when President Evo Morales said: “when the lawyers tell me that it is illegal, I say just do it, and then legalized it; for that, they have studied”. But…
Bolivian coca conundrum and international politics…
Over 15 years ago, it was common practice that the European countries and the UNDP were critics to the Bolivian government but did nothing about it, they just let the Americans be the “bad guys” (I know about this as I used to work in an international bilateral organization) … well it is long while…
Negative behaviors against Bolivian economy!
An interesting and important Editorial from El Diario: Negative behaviors against the economy In a poor and underdeveloped country like ours, it is almost impossible that all social strata are happy with what the authorities do, and these, in turn, can not do everything that is required by the different communities in the country; however,…
Bolivia was never “re” founded…
J. Lizandro Coca Olmos writes in Los Tiempos: Bolivia was never re-founded “.. .the Constituent Assembly in Bolivia, whose process was started on 2006, concluding in 2009, had unequivocally a native character, originating in the democratic will, popular from which, its autonomy is understood, that merit means, the new order is different from the pre-existing,…
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