By Carlos Toranzo Roca, Brújula Digital: They rose to power together, with Evo only adopting indigenous and socialist ideas at the last minute. Early in his campaign, those were not his main themes, as he came from a unionist logic more closely tied to revolutionary nationalism, which is his true heritage, as is the Popular…
Category: Economics
Bolivia: Electronic payment methods | Medios electrónicos de pago
By Vision 360: More and more Bolivians are using electronic payment methods, with QR codes being the favorite, growing by more than 4,700%, according to the BCB. The application of a formula that combines technology with the development and adoption of innovations for electronic payment instruments and channels allows the national financial system and its…
ECLAC: Bolivia’s economy will grow 1.7% in 2024, half of the government’s forecast (3.71%) | Cepal: La economía boliviana crecerá 1,7% en 2024, la mitad de lo previsto por el Gobierno (3,71%)
By El Deber: Bolivia has become the third most inflationary economy in the region, after Argentina and Venezuela, with a cumulative inflation of 8.82% and an annual inflation rate of 9.51%. Twelve days before the end of 2024, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published its latest regional economic report titled…
Agreement to seek unity, to find a single candidate | Acuerdo para buscar la unidad, para encontrar un candidato único
By Yerko Guevara, Unitel; Eju.tv: Who can join the pact signed by Tuto, Mesa, Camacho, and Doria Medina? Here’s what Carlos Valverde says “There is an agreement to seek unity, to find a single candidate, to try to build a very strong candidacy. There is absolutely nothing else,” said the analyst. From the perspective of…
Key topics for the 2025 elections | Temas clave para las elecciones del 2025
By Brujula Digital: Jubileo: Civil society proposes 16 urgent topics for the 2025 electoral agenda The Jubileo Foundation organized citizens’ priorities on social, economic, environmental, and political issues and presented them to political organizations ahead of the General Elections. Multidimensional poverty, educational inequality, dependency on extractivism, and political polarization are among the 16 key topics…
SOCIALISM THEN AND NOW, HERE AND THERE | EL SOCIALISMO ANTES Y AHORA, AQUÍ Y ALLÁ
By Oscar Antezana Malpartida Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? A simplistic answer to the question is: No. The International Monetary Fund’s purpose is to preserve the international financial system and, for that, national economies’ finances must also remain in a certain balance. In that sense, any socialist should disapprove of the IMF. But…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 