Editorial, El Dia: An outsider looking at Bolivia’s geopolitical makeup would find it unbelievable. The most populous department in the country, the strongest economically, the one that contributes the most in taxes, responsible for a third of the national GDP, producing 70% of the country’s food, the most industrialized, the top exporter, the melting pot…
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The light is about to go out, and the economy is about to grind to a halt | Se está por apagar la luz y paralizar la economía
By Higinio Flores Alcazar, El Diario: Stopping gas exports to use it in the domestic market is neither a crazy nor rushed idea The time of “lean cows” has arrived after two decades of “living off grandma’s inheritance.” From being exporters of natural gas, we are one step away from becoming importers of the same…
Ingenuamente, el presidente boliviano Luis Arce celebró la firma del contrato con entusiasmo | Naively, the Bolivian president Luis Arce welcomed the signing of the contract
Por Joseph Baselice, FirstOnLine: China también compra el Salar de Uyuni y accede al litio boliviano Pekín está invirtiendo más de $1.000 millones en dos fábricas que se construirán en el mayor (y más alto) salar del mundo, en los Andes: extraerá 35 toneladas de litio por año China lleva años colonizando la mitad del…
Fitch rebaja la calificación crediticia de Bolivia | Fitch downgrades Bolivia’s credit rating
Por MercoPress: La agencia internacional Fitch Ratings rebajó este viernes la calificación de Bolivia a “CCC-” y advirtió que se necesitan medidas correctivas urgentes para evitar un deterioro mayor. Al emitir su evaluación, Fitch consideró la falta de disponibilidad de divisas y las deficientes políticas económicas y fiscales del país. La nueva calificación implica un…
No loans will be approved without a change in the economic model | No se aprobarán créditos sin cambio de modelo económico
By El Diario: Congressman assures Recalling that the current government received more than 4.5 billion dollars in loans and despite this the economic crisis in the country is worsening, the deputy for the Creemos group, Walthy Egüez, reiterated that the opposition benches will not approve any credit while the economic model is not changed and…
True causes of the current crisis were not detailed | No se detalló las verdaderas causas de la crisis actual
By Juan Carlos Salinas, El Deber: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH Analysts observe that the economy was sidelined and that the true causes of the current crisis were not detailed Arce did not address the dollar shortage /File Observers note that President Luis Arce, in his speech for Plurinational State Day, did not address the dollar shortage, fiscal…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 