By Walter Guevara, Vision 360: The electoral roulette is spinning wildly. We can all bet on the winner, hoping that the country doesn’t end up as the loser. No opposition candidate can win the next presidential election without securing a majority of votes from the emerging middle class. This sector blindly voted for the MAS…
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Coca Gains Ground in Protected Areas | La coca gana terreno en áreas protegidas
Editorial, El Deber: The expansion of coca cultivation in Bolivia’s protected areas has reached alarming levels, according to the latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The increase in these territories between 2022 and 2023 was 34%, raising the cultivated area to 583 hectares within the country’s forests. At the…
Narco-state | Narcoestado
By Andrés Gómez, Visión 360: It is essential for the state to guarantee the safety of people engaged in lawful economic activities in high-risk areas. Moreover, it must promote investment in productive projects in regions where drug trafficking is the primary source of income. Two hitmen shot and killed Captain Juan Carlos Aldunate with seven…
The Agricultural Sector Calls for Economic Policy Change to Prevent Shortages | El agro pide cambio en la política económica y evitar desabastecimiento
By El Diario: The government, instead of addressing issues affecting the national economy, such as the shortage of dollars and fuel, is moving in the opposite direction by hindering production, exports, and all activities in the production chains. These actions put the future supply of various products at risk, according to a statement from the…
Bolivia’s country risk has increased by more than 600% | Riesgo país de Bolivia creció más de 600%
By El Diario: In the last 5 years Bolivia’s country risk on February 19, 2020 (five years ago) was only 275 points, but by December 31, 2024, it had risen to 2,087 points. From March 15, 2023, the indicator surpassed the 1,000-point mark, reaching 1,033 points, coinciding with the beginning of the currency crisis, which…
Bolivians Attribute the Current Economic Situation to Arce’s Mismanagement and the Failure of the MAS Model | Los bolivianos atribuyen la situación económica actual a la mala gestión de Arce y al fracaso del modelo del MAS
By Marco Antonio Belmonte, Vision 360: Perception Survey A total of 63.9% of respondents blamed the country’s economic difficulties on President Luis Arce’s poor management, while 39.1% attributed it to the exhaustion or failure of the current economic model People see the rising prices of goods as a risk. Photo: ABI A survey conducted using…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 