00:00In Bolivia, data on the state of the economy was released.
00:03The government assures that the crisis facing the country is the result of the opposition's repeated blockade of foreign loans
00:08and deliberate use of road blockades and protests.
00:11Details from correspondent Freddy Morales.
00:17Following the victory of the right wing in last August's elections, inflation began to fall dramatically.
00:23In May, it exceeded 5 percent, but last September it stood at 0.20 percent.
00:31The absence of these blockades has allowed us to have a lower or low level of the consumer price index for the third consecutive month.
00:40An official report from the Ministry of Finance confirmed repeated allegations by the government of the current president
00:48that much of the economic crisis facing the country was deliberately caused.
00:52Each stage of the months and days that the economy has been shut down has lead to a significant slowdown in
01:03The 36-day civil strike has caused us to go from growing at 4.5 percent to growing at 1.3 percent.
01:13The other blockade, we were growing from 3.1 to 1.3.
01:17From growing 2 percent in the last quarter of 2024, we ended up with a negative variation of 2.6.
01:23That is the effect that the road blockades had on economic activity.
01:26The blockade was the method used by the opposition to provoke an economic crisis for electoral purposes.
01:38Laws that could have helped to overcome the shortage of dollars caused by a decrease in natural gas exports
01:44were blocked in the Legislative Assembly.
01:45In the Assembly, when we brought the bill to strengthen international reserves, it took more than 18 months to approve it.
01:58More than a year and a half that this regulation was stalled, which, at the time,
02:03even at the international level, the political opposition was aided in its efforts to destabilize
02:14the economy for electoral purposes.
02:17This was aided by the so-called risk-rightings agencies, which increased the country risk
02:21to show a deepening of the economic crisis.
02:24But as soon as the right-wing government won, these indices immediately improved.
02:28There has been a key element, sabotage, and everything they did against the government,
02:37but it is no longer the main focus of politics because they have already achieved their goal.
02:46Today is a new political era with a new government, and that is why there is no longer that element
02:50of country risk because those who succeeded in blocking the economy from the old and the right-wing,
02:54starting with the road blockade, and in the Assembly, have achieved their goal.
02:59It is done.
03:00It is consummated.
03:04That could have alleviated the shortage of dollars and the supply of fuel.
03:09Right-wing businessman and politician Samuel Doria Medina called on legislators to approve
03:14these loans of almost two billion dollars to alleviate the crisis and serve the people.
03:19The triumph of the right not only drastically reduced inflation, but also forest fires.
03:24Freddy Morales, Telesur, Bolivia.
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