BOLI-NICA On Bolivia, Nicaragua, Latin America, US Politics, Globalization

Venezuela had the single largest oil boom in its history.  Several years ago it was estimated 200 billion in pre-tax dollars escaped state coffers to Venezuelan-held accounts overseas.  Venezue...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2016/04/panama-papers.html

Inside the Cuban Hospitals That Castro Doesn’t Want Tourists to See This is the healthcare system that Senator Bernie Sanders praised

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" resolving this situation shouldn’t be hard. Although nobody knows it, Greece has actually made great progress in regaining competitiveness; wages and costs have fallen dramatically, so that, ...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2015/01/resolving-this-situation-shouldn-be-hard.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/thomas-friedman-say-it-like-it-is.html?_r=1

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2015/01/tom-friedman-on-islamism.html

To understand Hamas you can not avoid its Charter or Covenant, the 1988 document that enough of their spokesmen quote from, though they sometimes deny it or downplay it. IIt is a sweeping stateme...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2014/08/hamas-charter.html

Wow you really have to full-on stupid to believe this one Allen West Accuses Media Of Using Donald Sterling Scandal To Distract From Benghazi | Right Wing Watch

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Interesting, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union - organizer of CPAC - boutique law firm represents several Chavista Oligarchs. Alek Boyd: Hugo Chavez’s corrupt cronies find GOP f...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2014/03/alek-boyd-hugo-chavezs-corrupt-cronies.html

What Chile Could Teach The United States About Preventing Government Shutdowns Chile’s urgency provision is rooted in an important insight in constitutional design. It recognizes that legisla...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2013/10/what-chile-could-teach-united-states.html

DANILO ARBILLA: Indígenas ‘reaccionarios’ - Opinión - ElNuevoHerald.com

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2013/10/danilo-arbilla-indigenas-reaccionarios.html

according to my research, based on U.S. Census Bureau age and citizenship data, Asian and Latino youth and newly naturalized U.S. citizens will make up 34 percent of newly eligible voters at the ...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2013/10/opinion-republicans-cant-ignore.html

The Chavista government is insane! US denies it’s targeting Venezuela candidate

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-denies-its-targeting-venezuela.html

So what can you say about this?  Tragic, yes, but his legacy casts a shadow over Venezuela and Latin America. Chavez was very popular with common people and spent a lot of money on projects to ...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2013/03/hugo-chavez-is-dead.html

Some see the Chavez regime as a benign entity that shares the oil wealth of the country with the poor for the first time in Venezuelan history.  Amazing how some will excuse away authoritarian t...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2012/09/corruption-in-chavez-venezuela-caracas.html

Wacky!! Cristina Kirchner expropriating Repsol's holding in YPF is just about the boldest and dumbest thing you can do.   Bold in the sense that she herself and her hubby were major backers o...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2012/04/cry-for-yourself-argentina.html

From the Economist,  Fuel on the fire Evo Morales is hoist with his own petard > The logic behind the increase was impeccable. Fuel prices in > Bolivia have been frozen s...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2011/01/evos-gasolinazo-morales-finally-does.html

Mario Vargas Llosa on his Nobel acceptance speech making the claim for Liberal Democracy > No debemos dejarnos intimidar por quienes quisieran arrebatarnos la > libertad que hemos ...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-of-wisdom.html

Interesting cables from around election time Did Evo steals votes?   when he clearly did not need to, in order to win the constitutional referendum, the US Embassy has some interesting thought...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-bolivias-referendum-margin-of.html

Revelations about US-Bolivian relations from the infamous State Department Cables Christina and Nestor Kirchner had good relations with Thomas Shannon Undersecretary of State during the Bush a...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/11/state-department-cables-evo-is.html

  Bolivia's government has finally confirmed what Bolivian analyst Hugo Del Granado reported a month ago ,  tthat the country's natural gas reserves have dropped precipituously. From Merco P...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/11/bolivias-shrinking-gas-reserves-price.html

At issue On April 1934 a joint resolution of Congress was passed giving President Roosevelt the power to forbid the sales of arms to Boliva or Paraguay in the Chaco War. > Resolved by t...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-fdr-banning-sales-of-guns-to.html

Top FARC military commander and member of the directorate whose nom de guerre was Mono Jojoy a/k/a Jorge Brice~o, was killed in Colombia by the military after a concerted effort of several years...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/09/mono-jojoy-meets-his-maker.html

via Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog : Quote of the day: Nicaragua this story from the LA TIMES At museum, Nicaragua president's favorite masterpiece is himself > Go to ...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/08/daniel-ortega-places-himself-all-over.html

Brazil's Bolsa Familia has been a great success in reducing poverty in Brazil thru payments to poor families, based on whether their children stay in school. The Economist finds that it is a rous...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/07/httpwwweconomistcomnode16690887storyid1.html

The excellent BBC Car Program Top Gear has a great tribute to Ayrton Senna.  What makes it stand out is how it focuses on Senna's technical abilities and talents as a driver, which sometimes get...

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The so-called Aymara "Priest" who presided over Evo Morales' Presidential Inauguration  in Bolivia was found red handed with many kilos of some sort of cocaine derivative at his house.  Alleged...

http://bolicarreras.blogspot.com/2010/07/evos-witch-doctor-gets-busted.html