Editorial, El Pais: Without an honest police force, no State can function and no citizen can trust it. The Bolivian Police has dragged for decades a problem that corrodes its very foundations: corruption. This is not just about a few “bad officers,” as is often claimed to minimize the issue. It is about a system…
Category: Social Unrest
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…
Welfarism as a Political Tool | El asistencialismo como herramienta política
By Beatriz Cahuasa, Visión 360: Today more than ever, we need a critical citizenry that asks itself: do we want a State that supports our development, or one that keeps us dependent? The results of Bolivia’s most recent presidential elections should not surprise us. Campaign promises catered to what the electorate wanted to hear: 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…
Camacho and Pumari reveal they were pressured in prison to implicate others and knew beforehand they would be arrested | Camacho y Pumari revelan que fueron presionados en la cárcel para implicar a otros y que sabían que serían detenidos
By Baldwin Montero, Visión 360: Both said they were warned in advance that they would be imprisoned, but chose not to flee. Camacho said he received nine proposals from a former minister of the current government. Marco Pumari and Fernando Camacho after being released from prison to defend themselves in freedom. In their first interviews…
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