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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