By Alvaro Rios, Brujula Digital: The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), in its two decades of government, has plunged the country into the worst energy disaster of its republican life. They squandered 13 Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF) of gas reserves and wasted $67 billion in hydrocarbon exports. Bolivia is left with 1.3 TCF and declining hydrocarbon…
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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…
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…
Qamiris: The Aymara upper bourgeoisie who now turn their backs on Evo Morales’ left | La alta burguesía aimara que ahora da la espalda a la izquierda de Evo Morales
By Caio Ruvenal, El País; Eju,tv: The communities that benefited from MAS-driven social mobility are now voting for Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia’s presidential elections. The sweeping electoral victory of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) in Bolivia’s Andean region is largely due to its strategy of courting the so-called “new Aymara rich,” or qamiris. Nearly 60%…
Polarization and fragmentation rekindle in the context of the runoff | La polarización y la fragmentación se reavivan en el contexto de la segunda vuelta
Overall assessment: Who is most likely to win the second round? By eju.tv: The 10 MOST relevant things from the last hours that we recommend you read. Random image Paz and Quiroga go to the runoff. Illustration: Bolivia Verifica Polarization resurfaces on the way to the runoff, and leaders lack a discourse of reconciliation –…
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