By Vision 360: Legislative Lara suffers a setback: he failed to secure the necessary votes to consider a resolution against Paz’s adjustment decree The country’s second-highest authority stated that the measures issued by the Government are putting Bolivia’s political and social situation on edge. Lara, during Friday’s session. Photo: Visión 360 Vice President Edmand Lara…
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High-Cost Social Adjustment | Ajuste con alto costo social
By Raúl Domínguez, El Deber: Comprehensive Adjustment with High Social Cost: Highlights and Shadows of the Government’s Economic Package The government seeks to balance the country’s finances / Archive Economist Fernando Romero warns that the Government’s measures will also affect several economic activities The set of economic measures announced by the Government last Wednesday, presented…
Freeing fuel prices was an “inevitable” measure | Liberar precio de carburantes era una medida “inevitable”
By El Diario: To break free from the economic fantasy Following the government’s decision to lift fuel subsidies, along with issuing a series of measures to confront the crisis and stabilize the economy, financial advisor and former presidential pre-candidate Jaime Dunn said the move was “inevitable” and a decision that had been avoided for years….
Oversized Plant Threatens Llamas | Planta sobredimensionada amenaza a las llamas
By Unitel: The Oruro camelid plant is so large that if it operates at 100% “we are going to wipe out the llamas,” warns the office of public enterprises “It’s not that the plant will only be used a little; either it works or it doesn’t. They didn’t think about feeding these camelids, they didn’t…
The statist State suffocates Bolivian mining | El Estado estatista ahoga a la minería boliviana
By El Diario: Lawyer Heiddi Ruiz Gonzales states Mining law specialist Heiddi Ruiz Gonzales warned that Bolivian mining is paralyzed by legal uncertainty, Law 535, and heavy bureaucracy, despite the country having more than 9,000 companies and around 1,700 registered cooperatives. In an interview with EL DIARIO, she said that reactivating the sector requires a clear…
Zombie Firms Cost Billions | Empresas zombi cuestan miles de millones
By Erbol: Zombie Companies and the ‘Industrialization Scam’ Wasted US$2.595 Billion Lupo presented the figures of the “waste.” The government presented on Monday the figures of what it called the “great waste” and “corruption” of MAS governments in initiatives such as the creation of state-owned companies that ended up bankrupt, becoming “zombies,” and the “scam”…
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