00:00And we move on now to Bolivia. For the third consecutive month, a low inflation rate has been recorded, only 0.2% in September, but with cumulative inflation above 18%, which shows that the price increase was deliberately provoked before the national elections.
00:16Our correspondent, Freddy Morales, gives us the details.
00:21Inflation in September was only 0.2%.
00:24Inflation has fallen for the third consecutive month, reaching just 0.2% in September.
00:37This is important information because it implies that the high inflation we had in May and June was a supply problem associated with the blockades and the problems we have had with the exchange rate.
00:54Despite the sharp decline, cumulative inflation has almost tripled the government's forecast in its economic program, which was 7.5% for the fiscal year.
01:12As of September, we have recorded 0.2%, bringing the cumulative inflation to 18.33%.
01:18This 0.2% has a very strong impact on the overall performance of 2025, as it is the lowest monthly inflation of the entire administration.
01:36The government denounced that the economic crisis, manifested in a shortage of dollars, a shortage of fuel, and high inflation, was deliberately caused by the opposition, which, from the legislature, boycotted economic management for electoral purposes.
01:57President Luis Arce warned that the right wing in government will bring more difficult days.
02:01The right wing refers to these projects as theft, waste, this spending, this stealing is what the people need because those roads.
02:12Those houses, those bridges, those educational facilities, those hospitals are what the Bolivian people need.
02:18And he reminded that the two candidates who will go to the runoff on the 19th of this month, are conservatives.
02:31These have been governments that have never thought about the Bolivian people that refer to doing work for the people as spending, as stealing, stealing, spending is what they have done in neoliberal governments.
02:40Handing over our natural resources to foreign capital, forgetting that what is needed is work for the Bolivian people, that these riches remain for us, the Bolivian people, not for the United States, not for foreigners, not for transnational corporations.
03:01The government had forecast inflation of 7.5% for this year, but this figure spiraled out of control during the election period, and now exceeds 18%.
03:17The economic crisis that began with a shortage of dollars and fuel was exacerbated by road blockades, and the freezing of foreign credit by the opposition-controlled legislative assembly.
03:28Freddy Morales, Telesur, Bolivia.
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