By El Diario: Authorities’ openness to dialogue highlighted Highlighting that government authorities have expressed openness to improving the content of Supreme Decree 5503 after listening to observations from various sectors, the representative of the United Evangelical Churches of Bolivia, Luis Aruquipa, criticized the leadership of the Bolivian Workers’ Center (COB) for maintaining an intransigent position…
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Blockades Bleed Bolivia | Los bloqueos desangran a Bolivia
By Eju.tv: Road blockades generate daily losses of up to US$60 million and put investments at risk, industrialists warn The president of the National Chamber of Industries (CNI), Gonzalo Morales, also warned that the productive and logistics chain of industries is being affected, as well as the cold chain for food and medicines. Amid the…
Low Productivity Traps Bolivia | Bolivia atrapada en la baja productividad
By El Diario: Bolivia continues to rank among the least productive and competitive economies in Latin America, a situation that helps explain its weak economic growth, shortage of formal jobs, and limited improvement in household incomes. This lag is neither recent nor temporary, but the result of structural problems that have accumulated over time and…
Brief Yearbook of the Energy Sector | Balance anual del sector energético boliviano
By Francesco Zaratti: The analysis of Bolivia’s energy sector in 2025 distinguishes two periods, with the government change as the dividing line: (1) from January to October, and (2) November and December. Before Supreme Decree (DS) 5503, we suffered from the fuel supply crisis and the effects of the erratic policy applied over the last…
Putting the House in Order | La casa en orden
By El Diario: For the country to start moving forward after the two infamous decades of MAS rule, the house must be put in order, President Rodrigo Paz repeats in the early hours of 2026. The goblins must be expelled, the ghosts, everything left behind by the party of the cocalero Morales after taking everything…
Millionaire Fuel Smuggling Exposed | Desvío Millonario de Combustibles al Descubierto
By Raúl Dominguez, El Deber: The Million-Dollar Fuel Diversion: Government Estimates Illegal Business at Up to US$3 Million a Day “Two or three million dollars a day are capable of corrupting everything in their path,” said Hydrocarbons Minister Mauricio Medinaceli, when referring to the power wielded by smugglers. The fuel diversion scheme uncovered by the…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 