By Ernesto Estremadoiro Flores, El Deber: Currency Shortage 2025 Budget: Economist warns that excessive spending will drive up the dollar The official exchange rate of the dollar is Bs 6.96, but the parallel market reaches Bs 11 The Government has planned public investment exceeding $4 billion. Specialist Joshua Bellott Sáenz asserts that this will increase…
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It’s time to abandon empty rhetoric and historical mistakes | Es tiempo de dejar discursos vacíos y errores históricos
By El Diario: 2025, a Crucial Electoral Year 2024 will be remembered as a year marked by economic challenges, political turmoil, and tensions, according to Alejandra Camargo, a deputy from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC). She also noted that 2025 will be defined as an electoral year, where Bolivians must show whether they have learned the lessons…
The MAS Economic Model Made the Economy More Dependent on the Dollar | Modelo económico del MAS volvió a la economía más dependiente del dólar
By El Diario, Eju.tv: The exchange rate for the dollar in the parallel market exceeds 10 bolivianos due to high demand, as it has become difficult to obtain at the official rate. Since the government of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) established a fixed exchange rate in 2011—6.86 for buying and 6.96 for selling—it made…
Plurinational State in Terminal Crisis | Estado Plurinacional en crisis terminal
Editorial, El Diario: The Plurinational State—which the MAS (Movement for Socialism) attempted to establish in 2009 with the first Constitution approved by referendum—led by the “country’s first indigenous president,” has completed its historical cycle by destroying the very creation it set out to build. Officially born on January 22, 2010, the Plurinational State will soon…
The Negative Legacy of National-Popular Ideology | La herencia negativa de lo nacional-popular
By H. C. F. Mansilla, Brújula Digital: Being generous, we can estimate that about 10,000 people read Brújula Digital and similar newspapers daily. Stretching generosity further, perhaps 100,000 readers across the country share the core ideas these media outlets propagate. This is less than 1% of Bolivia’s population of over 11 million. Though seemingly insignificant, this figure…
What does 2024 leave us? | ¿Qué nos deja el 2024?
By German Huanca, El Deber: 2024 closes as a year marked by a profound economic crisis, whose origin is closely tied to the current government’s economic policy decisions. The president, in his previous role as Minister of Finance, implemented controversial measures to finance the fiscal deficit. These included the irresponsible use of international reserves, a…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 