Bolivia’s Currency Crisis Deepens as Dollar Become Hard to Find Sergio Mendoza, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Bolivia’s foreign currency crisis is deepening as the supply of dollars at commercial banks and on the black market dries up, leaving the central bank as the last place people can buy the greenbacks in La Paz. Lines outside the…
Category: Economics
The bad international image of Bolivia – La mala imagen internacional de Bolivia
Editorial, El Deber: Bolivia is going through a period of economic turbulence. The drop in Net International Reserves was the trigger for much bad news for the country. One of them is the shortage of dollars, internally, but it is not the only one. Later, Fitch Ratings’ rating was announced, which lowered Bolivia from B…
Current government, only generates uncertainty! – ¡Gobierno actual, solo genera incertidumbre!
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Dollar demand From this newspaper, we have covered the issue of the lack of dollars with the utmost journalistic rigor, with due care to fulfill the responsibility of informing (our mission as an independent communication media) without falling into alarmism. At this point, it cannot be ignored that the demand for dollars…
Rhetoric of exemplary economics destroyed – Desbaratan retórica de la economía ejemplar
Editorial Pagina Siete: Fitch Ratings has downgraded Bolivia’s credit rating from B to B- and has changed the outlook to negative from stable. This is bad news for the country because it will reduce its chances of obtaining external financing and attracting investment; however, beyond that fact, it is a lapidary report because it destroys,…
Acute crisis of confidence – Aguda crisis de confianza
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The Government of Luis Arce is going through perhaps the most critical trance of his two years and four months in office. The teachers’ protests, which are announcing that they are getting worse, the roadblocks in three departments, which do not seem close to an end, and the political pressures that it…
It’s the economy, it’s not politics – Es la economía, no es la política
Editorial, El Deber: Bolivia is going through moments of uncertainty due to the economic situation. The slow and forceful fall of the Net International Reserves (NIR), together with the lack of transparency in the information provided by the Government, left a climate of fear and doubts among the citizens, in addition to affecting imports and…
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