Bolivia, low temperatures began to affect the country

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In Bolivia, the government announced that despite adverse events such as recent road blockades and frost on crops, the normal supply of food for the population is guaranteed, even with price reductions.  Our correspondent Freddy Morales tells us the details. teleSUR

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00:00And in Bolivia, the government announced that despite adverse events such as recent road blockades,

00:05the normal supply of food for the population is guaranteed.

00:09Our correspondent, Freddy Morales, with the details.

00:13Frost or low temperatures began to affect some crops in seven of the country's nine departments.

00:23Of the total crops we have at the national level would only affect 7 percent.

00:26We would have more than 93 percent of the production that is insured in different areas of the country.

00:34Frost occurs when the air temperature drops below zero degrees

00:41and can cause the water inside plant cells to freeze and wilt.

00:48There are seven departments that have been affected by frost.

00:51But I also want to clarify that in many areas of our country investments have been made,

00:59especially in technified irrigation, and greenhouses and nurseries have been built.

01:10Another recent problem for the normal food supply was not caused by nature.

01:17It was the 14-day road blockades that led to shortages and price increases.

01:25Prices of tomatoes, onions and others started to fall in the last week, by almost 30 percent.

01:30We continue to have the lowest food prices in the entire region,

01:38the food that can be acquired even though social problems such as the blockades have had us really punished these days.

01:44Prices have increased, have risen, but we continue to have the lowest prices as Bolivians of all the countries in the region.

01:49Desde el gobierno se insiste en que la crisis económica que soporta el país.

01:58The government insists that the country's economic crisis has been deliberately provoked by the political opposition,

02:04which aggravated the shortage of dollars by not approving external credits,

02:07which are disbursed in that currency, for almost two billion dollars.

02:10We want to continue asking the assembly to listen to the people, not only to the government, but to the people.

02:20We want stability in the importation of Dysol, and that is with dollars and the dollars are sleeping in the assembly

02:25and they have been taking their time for two and a half years and even more that the credits are there that would allow.

02:30As to be calm with the issue of Dysol distribution,

02:32unfortunately we are still waiting until the last day surely to harm the government's management.

02:36The shortage of dollars resulted in fuel shortages and general price increases.

02:49Inflation, as of May, is close to 10 percent and some product regularly disappears and rises in price.

02:55Cooking oil is now in short supply despite the fact that private producers say that their production is normal

03:00and demand that they be authorized to export.

03:02In neighboring countries the product costs up to three times more than in the domestic market.

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