By Daniel Salazar, Bloomberg Linea: The general elections scheduled for August 17, 2025, could mark a turning point for the country’s credit rating. Moody’s believes that “significant policy measures are unlikely to be taken before that date.” Bloomberg Línea — Moody’s downgrade of Bolivia’s credit rating from Caa3 to Ca, placing it deeper into speculative territory,…
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Model Change: “Bolivia Needs to Work” | Cambio de modelo: “Bolivia necesita trabajar”
By Ernesto Estremadoiro Flores, El Deber: DEMANDS Multisectoral Protest Demands Model Change: “Bolivia Needs to Work” The president of the CAO led the multisectoral march / Photo: Yolanda Mamani Farmers, transport workers, informal vendors, and industrialists marched to reject the crisis and demand a new national pact that prioritizes production, employment, and the elimination of…
Merchants in crisis: sales drop and the dollar is trading at Bs. 13.50 and Bs. 13.80 | Comerciantes en crisis: ventas caen y el dólar se cotiza en Bs. 13,50 y Bs. 13,80
By La Patria: Dollar / Reference Independent merchants are facing an alarming crisis in Bolivia, with declining sales and a dollar exchange rate exceeding Bs 13.50. Self-employed merchants in Bolivia are facing a significant crisis. This is due to falling sales and the rising exchange rate of the dollar, which on April 22, 2025, ranges…
High inflation leads to “accelerated impoverishment of the population” | Alta inflación lleva a un “empobrecimiento acelerado de la población”
By Unitel: High inflation leads to “accelerated impoverishment of the population”: IMF report worries economists The latest IMF report projects 15.1% inflation for Bolivia this year and 1.1% growth [Photo: Social Media] / Economists express concern over the latest IMF report Following the announcement that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects an inflation rate of…
Dunn explains why he didn’t finalize an alliance with ADN and MNR: ‘freedom needs new structures’ | Dunn explica por qué no concreto alianza con ADN y MNR: ‘la libertad necesita estructuras nuevas’
By Erbol: SPEAKS OF THE FUTURE, NOT THE PAST The pre-candidate Jaime Dunn responded to criticism for not having finalized alliances with Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). He stated that he seeks a pact with the future, not with the past, and that the vision of freedom for the country…
Blank Slate for Bolivia | Tabla rasa para Bolivia
By Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Brujula Digital: “Evo or nothing,” “Tuto or nothing”: two sides of the same coin, the same authoritarianism disguised as democracy. Bolivian democracy, like much of Latin America’s, has adopted a formally democratic discourse, and lately, a fashionable liberal one. But as always: by their fruits you shall know them. In politics, there’s…
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