Claire Ballentine reports for the Chronicle: DukeEngage announces new program sites, cancels one of them less than two weeks later DukeEngage just set a record for its shortest-running program of all time. On Sept. 29, the service program announced two new sites for Summer 2018—Cape Verde and Bolivia. But less than two weeks later, organizers…
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With Its Unbanked Majority, Bolivia Can Gain Much From Adopting Bitcoin
Adam Dubove writes for The Cointelegraph: With Its Unbanked Majority, Bolivia Can Gain Much From Adopting Bitcoin A country with a high-rate of the unbanked, a large informal economy and a tumultuous history of inflation sounds like a perfect scenario for Bitcoin and cyrpyocurrencies to thrive. However, a quick glimpse on Bitcoin-related groups on social…
Is it OK to lie??!
Apparently not for Bolivian people, this cartoon appeared today in El Diario, it portrays current president as he sees himself in the mirror… Public opinion questions how this president can say one day one ting and the next something completely different and antigenic with the former. This type of attitude does not only represent uncertainty…
Government perceived as weak regarding escalating conflicts…
This cartoon is from El Diario, December 6, 2011. It shows a citizen chained around blockades, marches, bottlenecks, lost time, traffic cuts, dance rehearsals, strikes. An Angry frustrated Bolivian saying: “..Aren’t there human rights for people who honestly have to work to be able to survive in the country!!” In addition, El Deber captured the…
How to keep inflation under control, Econ 101
This cartoon is from today’s El Diario. Current Economics Bolivian minister is walking inside a supermarket and prices around him show the before and after changes! He is saying: “…it just take someone from the government to pronounce that little word starting with G… and they rise all without control..!…” The G word is for…
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