00:00In Bolivia, for the third consecutive month, a low inflation rate has been recorded,
00:05only 0.2 percent in September, but with a cumulative inflation above 18 percent,
00:11which 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 percent.
00:24For the third consecutive month, inflation has fallen for the third consecutive month,
00:34reaching just 0.2 percent in September.
00:41This is important information because it implies that the high inflation we had in May and June
00:46was a supply problem associated with the blockades and the problems we have
00:54had with the exchange rate.
01:02Despite the sharp decline, cumulative inflation is almost triple the government's forecast
01:07in its economic program, which was 7.5 percent for the fiscal year.
01:15As of September, we have recorded 0.2 percent, bringing the cumulative inflation to 18.33 percent.
01:24This 0.2 percent has a very strong impact on the overall performance of 2025,
01:32as it is the lowest monthly inflation of the entire administration.
01:40The government denounced that the economic crisis, manifested in a shortage of dollars,
01:51a shortage of fuel, and high inflation, was deliberately caused by the opposition,
01:56which, from the legislature, boycotted economic management for electoral purposes.
02:01President Luis Arce warned that the right wing in government will bring more difficult days.
02:05The right wing refers to these projects as theft, waste, this spending, this stealing
02:13is what the people need because those roads, those houses, those bridges, those educational
02:18facilities, those hospitals are what the Bolivian people need.
02:22And he reminded that the two candidates who will go to the run-off on the 19th of this month
02:31are conservatives.
02:35These have been governments that have never thought about the Bolivian people that refer
02:38to doing work for the people as spending, as stealing, stealing, spending is what they
02:43have done in neoliberal governments, handing over our natural resources to foreign capital,
02:56forgetting that what is needed is work for the Bolivian people, that these riches remain
03:00for us, the Bolivian people, not for the United States, not for foreigners, not for transnational
03:04corporations.
03:06The government had forecast inflation of 7.5% for this year, but this figure spiraled out
03:17of control during the election period, and now exceeds 18%.
03:21The economic crisis that began with a shortage of dollars and fuel was exacerbated by road
03:27blockades, and the freezing of foreign credit by the opposition-controlled legislative assembly.
03:36Yeah.
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