Maggy Talavera’s wonderful analysis in Pagina Siete: How is that, how President? When Evo Morales delivered his first speech as President of Bolivia, seven years ago, a question particularly caught the attention and was a matter of opinions in the national and international press. It was addressed to the former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who…
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Black November… what will Bolivian politics bring for 2013??!!
Since 2003, after turmoil, social unrest we labelled those periods as “Black February” “Black October”… now Carlos Cordero writes a very significant description of current political party in the central power of Bolivia. From Los Tiempos: Black November Before November and before discovering the network of extortion around key ministries of the Government of President Morales,…
Is it morally, ethically to claim victory over someone else’s credit?
Bolivian government has the tendency to inflate its accomplishments, out of arrogance, desperation or who knows… in any case current news from El Diario is very illustrative, vis-a-vis our most visible and important industry: hydrocarbons! Yesterday presented the annual report of the State oil company to the press Analysts: YPFB achievements are due to efforts…
Bolivian economics 101: results and expectations with current gov policies… August, 2012
To better illustrate how prepared we are to secure our daily lives, the following graphs and cartoons should serve us to think over what to expect and what to do in 2014… These graphs are from IBCE, see direct link for more info here Silver, Tin and Zinc international prices are going down, internally a…
Hydrocarbons 101: They see inefficient management of YPFB after six years of nationalization
The following article belongs to Hydrocarbons 101, as it assesses the performance of the most important and visible governmental economic policy action. I decided to include two cartoons related to YPFB in the body of the article, which do no interpret or refer to the article per se. They only share the subject: YPFB wanderings……
Humor? NO! just Bolivian mishaps due to current government’s performance – June 10 to July 21, 2012
Bolivian mishaps due to current government’s performance The following cartoons illustrate last few weeks that crumbled our daily lives: This is from El Diario, June 10, 2012: At that time, we saw YPFB’s President talking with one of his aides. Aide: “…why are spending all these remodeling in the building! … if we lack funds…
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