By Opinion: 2024 marked the end of the economic boom of the early millennium. The Bolivian currency depreciated, and gasoline and diesel are in short supply. An alleged coup worsened the situation. In a report last year, the World Bank highlighted Bolivia as one of the three economies with the best economic growth projections in…
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Bolivians end the year with distrust in the government | Bolivianos cierran el año con desconfianza en el Gobierno
By El Diario: In public opinion With a crisis of confidence in the government due to the lack of foreign currency, fuel shortages, and corruption, Bolivians end the year. A snapshot of Bolivia’s reality presented by Ipsos Ciesmori reveals that 95% of those surveyed believe the country is on the wrong track. Luis Garay, client…
evo/luchin: squandered almost 90 billion dollars| dilapidaron casi 90 mil millones de dólares
Editorial, El Dia: The left and the economy Bolivia faces one of the worst economic crises in its recent history and the cause is only one: in less than 20 years, the governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora squandered almost 90 billion dollars (sum of the cash flow of the General Treasury of…
‘Getting to Bolivia is extremely expensive’: Tourism sector calls for open skies or greater flexibility | ‘Llegar a Bolivia es carísimo’: Turismo pide cielos abiertos o más flexibilidad
By Daniel Gutierrez, La Razon: The sector’s proposal includes eliminating bureaucratic and tax barriers to attract investors and promote tourism. The ATT reports 33,000 airline passengers affected by high demand. Image: La Razón archive Due to the high costs of entering the country and the lack of effective policies to promote tourism, sector operators propose…
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) 