By Juan Antonio Morales, Brujula Digital: Resuming growth is a key objective of economic policy. However, macroeconomic stabilization must come first. Bloomberg (|20|11|24|) classifies Bolivia’s crisis as a classic balance-of-payments crisis. The recipe to address this issue is well-known and doesn’t require reinventing the wheel, though it does demand a significant political agreement: Measures 1…
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Citizens take to the streets with the ‘Anillazo’ to demand structural changes and early elections | Ciudadanos toman las calles con el ‘Anillazo’ para exigir cambios estructurales y adelanto de elecciones
By Mauricio Quiroz Terán, El Deber: Thousands of Citizens Take the Streets of Santa Cruz to Protest the Economic Crisis Thousands of citizens, including representatives of Santa Cruz institutions, took to the second ring road to express their discontent with the government of President Luis Arce and to demand urgent measures to address the growing…
RUBIO: CAN ONE SWALLOW REALLY BRING SUMMER? | ¿UNA GOLONDRINA QUE TRAERÁ VERANO?
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida: Just as it was once said that Javier Milei would become a fresh breeze of right-wing politics for Latin America—and hopefully he will—Marco Rubio, not the Republican Party or Donald Trump, represents hope for Latin America, and, hopefully, for Bolivia as well. Marco Rubio is currently a United States Senator from…
“More Debt and Pressure on International Reserves and Devaluation” – 2025 – “Más deuda y presión en las reservas internacionales y devaluación”
By Unitel; Omar Pereyra, Eju.tv: Analyst Says PGE 2025 Predicts “More Debt and Pressure on International Reserves and Devaluation” “Without legal security, without attracting foreign investment, without increasing exports, and without reducing public spending, it is impossible to solve this crisis,” stated economist Jaime Dunn. Economist Jaime Dunn points out that the draft General State…
A Large State or Strong Institutions? | ¿Un Estado grande o una institucionalidad sólida?
By German Huanca, El Deber: This article is a reply to Elizabeth Jiménez Zamora’s article published on brujuladigital.net, which presents an interesting reflection on the role of institutions in the Bolivian economy, inspired by the contributions of the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Economics. However, the interpretation of these ideas invites a critical analysis, particularly…
In the short term, antimony, tin, and zinc are more important than lithium | En el corto plazo, antimonio, estaño y zinc, son más importantes que el litio
By El Diario: In the short term, tin, zinc, gold, silver, lead, and antimony are much more important than lithium for alleviating Bolivia’s economic crisis, according to former Minister of Mining Jaime Villalobos, who recommended turning attention to the Precambrian region in the east and the mineral deposits in the west. For Villalobos, a doctor…
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