Pagina Siete reports: PRICES OF PRODUCTS Entrepreneurs claim that inflation will be higher than 8% The businessmen of Santa Cruz warned that the country’s inflation this year will exceed 8%, while the Government assures that it shall not exceed that percentage. Santa Cruz entrepreneurs’ President, Gabriel Dabdoub, said that the high prices recorded during the…
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Bolivia would be better if current president would just do nothing!
Manfredo Kempff writes for El Deber: May His Excellency do nothing I hope that does not happen to H.E [His Excellency], to do nothing to improve justice in Bolivia, because if he will be committing the same rants as ever, things will go worse. The only thing that the Bolivian justice needs, is to be…
Coca crop is slowly taking over our agricultural production…
Current ochlocracy is just unable to stop this detrimental trend… This is from El Diario, October 23, 2013: 1st woman: “mate… there is no more fruit, tomato, veggies production, everything is imported and expensive..! what are we going to eat..?” 2nd woman: “.. coca, duh! lets make coca flour, coca tea, beverages.! everything!..” So… need…
The caprices of the Bolivian natural gas…
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Vagaries of the gas To take 10 years for the tribute to heroes is a lot. A chronicle of it can be called: “you change lives!” or “we, from then, are no longer the same”, as a poet said. Who offers the tribute as it is not the same….
Bolivian inflation is harder to deny! Food prices rose by 101% since 2006… wonder why?
Pagina Siete reports: ACCORDING TO RESEARCH OF THE JUBILEO FOUNDATION Food prices rose by 101%, from 2006 So far year, food inflation reached 11.11% and is the highest rate since 2010. Affects more to the poorest households. The price of food has doubled in the past eight years, according to a report of the Jubileo…
Bolivian Justice’s weaknesses as assessed by the EU
ANF reports in El Deber: POLICY European Union identifies five weaknesses in the Bolivian justice It was announced that in the next seven years, this international organization will collaborate with economic resources to strengthen justice in the country, though not yet identified the specific area of this support, but it is estimated that it can…
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