By Alvaro Rios, Brujula Digital: The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), in its two decades of government, has plunged the country into the worst energy disaster of its republican life. They squandered 13 Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF) of gas reserves and wasted $67 billion in hydrocarbon exports. Bolivia is left with 1.3 TCF and declining hydrocarbon…
Category: Economics
Tuto Quiroga warns BCB executives of prison if they don’t hand over 22 tons of gold | Tuto Quiroga advierte cárcel para ejecutivos del BCB si no entregan 22 toneladas de oro
By Erbol: CALLS TO UPHOLD THE LAW Jorge Tuto Quiroga shares an apthapi in the city of Satélite in El Alto this Saturday. Photo/Social networks Presidential candidate Jorge Tuto Quiroga warned this Saturday that he will initiate criminal proceedings against executives of the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) if, on November 8—the date when the…
Cumulative Food Inflation Climbs to 22% Through August | La Inflación acumulada de alimentos escala al 22% hasta agosto
By Marco Antonio Belmonte, Visión 360: More Expensive Products Twelve-month cumulative food inflation has reached 31.21%. Prices rose for chicken meat, beef, and bananas. Egg supply at a market in La Paz. Photo: ABI While the Consumer Price Index (CPI) peaked at 18.09%, food inflation recorded a much higher cumulative rate of 22% in the…
NIR, small and a challenge for the new government | RIN, pequeño y desafío para el nuevo gobierno
By Germán Huanca, Urgente.bo: A figure has just been released that, last year, was kept highly secretive around this time. The Central Bank of Bolivia, today, before the end of the MAS’s 20 years in power, made public the new data on Net International Reserves (NIR) as of August 31, 2025. Bolivia had a total…
“Prices do not fall in step with the drop in the dollar” | “Los precios no bajan al compás de la baja del dólar”
By ANF, Eju.tv: Warns economist Gonzalo Chávez The analyst recalled that when the parallel exchange rate soared to 14 and 15 bolivianos, importers continued supplying the market, but at a higher cost, which was ultimately passed on to consumers. That process, known as exchange rate pass-through, does not necessarily work in reverse when the dollar…
Qamiris: The Aymara upper bourgeoisie who now turn their backs on Evo Morales’ left | La alta burguesía aimara que ahora da la espalda a la izquierda de Evo Morales
By Caio Ruvenal, El País; Eju,tv: The communities that benefited from MAS-driven social mobility are now voting for Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia’s presidential elections. The sweeping electoral victory of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) in Bolivia’s Andean region is largely due to its strategy of courting the so-called “new Aymara rich,” or qamiris. Nearly 60%…
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