By El Deber: Users can now spend their digital dollars with just a QR code/Photo: Meru The selling price of digital dollars is favorable for payers, and the payment experience is similar to any app in Bolivia, according to Meru co-founder Carlos Neira. Meru has introduced to the Bolivian market an innovative QR payment method…
Category: Economics
Tuto Quiroga responds to Luis Arce: “We don’t need a meeting” | Tuto Quiroga le responde a Luis Arce: “No requerimos una reunión”
By Milen Saavedra, Red UNO: President Luis Arce invited the two presidential candidates who advanced to the runoff, Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Tuto Quiroga, to a meeting to brief them on the state of the country’s economy. Tuto Quiroga responds to Luis Arce: “We don’t need a meeting” Presidential candidate Jorge Tuto Quiroga rejected President…
Freeing the dollar or distributing state resources | Liberar el dólar o repartir los recursos del Estado
By Marco Antonio Belmonte, Vision 360: Strengths and weaknesses of Quiroga and Paz’s economic proposals analyzed The analysis was conducted by former Tierra Foundation director Gonzalo Colque, who points out that the Achilles’ heel of Paz and Lara is promising the impossible: spending more while collecting less, whereas Quiroga advocates for belt-tightening. Jorge Quiroga and…
This way we won’t get out of the crisis | Así no saldremos de la crisis
By Germán Huanca, Urgente.bo: The results of Bolivia’s national elections clearly reflect a victory for democracy. Neither renowned political analysts nor polls foresaw the Lara phenomenon, which ended up pushing Rodrigo Paz into first place on August 17, and who will now face the runoff in October. The question remains: is the PDC’s platform a…
The Labyrinth of Rodrigo Paz: Between the MAS Ghost, Rejection at Home, and an Uncomfortable Captain | El laberinto de Rodrigo Paz: entre el fantasma del MAS, el rechazo en su tierra y un capitán incómodo
By El Dia: The PDC candidate defends his running mate Edman Lara, despite outbursts that fuel criticism, while facing suspicions of ties to MAS and the paradox of ranking third in Tarija, his own stronghold. Rodrigo Paz finds himself trapped in a political labyrinth that seems to close in on him with every step. He…
Cochabamba, Guarayos and northern La Paz suffer diesel shortages | Cochabamba, Guarayos y el norte paceño sufren por escasez de diésel
By Ernesto Estremadoiro, El Deber: Bolivia faces a severe energy crisis /Photo: Ricardo Montero Transport workers spend the night at gas stations in Cochabamba, residents accuse soldiers of favoritism in Guarayos, and social media videos reveal the irregular exit of fuel in Mapiri and Guanay. The fuel crisis in Bolivia is deepening. In Cochabamba, transport…
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