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Montevideo, December 21st 2025 - 09:36 UTC

Tag: Rodrigo Paz

  • Saturday, December 20th 2025 - 10:26 UTC

    Bolivia faces indefinite strike to protest end of fuel subsidies

    “The decree will not be changed because it is a starting point,” Paz asserted

    Bolivia's powerful labor and transport unions confirmed they would launch an indefinite national strike starting Monday after President Rodrigo Paz Pereira vowed that Supreme Decree 5503, eliminating decades-old fuel subsidies, was a “non-negotiable” starting point for his administration.

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  • Thursday, December 18th 2025 - 08:11 UTC

    Bolivian President ends fuel subsidies, raises minimum wage

    Paz has blamed the previous administrations of Evo Morales and Luis Arce Catacora for “20 years of looting and waste”

    Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira has announced a drastic economic overhaul, declaring a state of “economic, financial, energetic, and social emergency,” which includes ending fuel subsidies that have been in place for over 20 years and implementing a significant increase in the minimum wage to offset the resulting inflation.

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  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 10:09 UTC

    Bolivian Customs is going to die, says President Paz

    Customs barriers resulted in officials asking for bribes, Paz admitted

    Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira announced Wednesday that his administration would eliminate tariffs on all technological products not manufactured domestically to lower consumer costs, fighting smuggling, and boosting national production.

  • Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:17 UTC

    Bolivia: DEA returning after 17-year absence

    Paz's initiative faces a constitutional hurdle banning foreign forces from the country

    The Bolivian government confirmed this week that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will return to the country “very soon,” marking a significant change in the country's anti-drug policy since the agency was expelled in 2008 by former President Evo Morales.

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Bolivia granted US$550-mn loan by CAF

    Bolivia is “a strategic partner,” Díaz-Granados said

    Bolivia was granted a US$550 million loan as part of a program to support the country's economic recovery, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) said on Monday in a statement from its Southern Region's headquarters in Montevideo.

  • Monday, November 10th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Rodrigo Paz sworn in as Bolivia's new President

    Paz's first challenge will be to solve the dollar shortage and rising prices

    Rodrigo Paz Pereira, a 58-year-old center-right politician, was inaugurated as the President of Bolivia on Saturday, assuming a five-year mandate amid a severe economic crisis. The son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora won the Oct. 19 runoff with 54.5% of the vote, successfully ending two decades of dominance by the leftwing Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

  • Tuesday, October 21st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Bolivia's future president to resume diplomatic ties with Washington

    Paz's move will follow a 17-year hiatus under the leftist Movement Toward Socialism (MAS)

    Bolivia's president-elect, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, announced on Monday his intention to reestablish diplomatic relations with the United States after a 17-year hiatus under the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) governments.

  • Monday, October 20th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Paz wins Bolivia's presidental runoff

    Paz's inauguration is set for Nov. 8 for a five-year term

    Rodrigo Paz won Sunday's runoff and will become Bolivia's next president. With 97% of the ballots counted, the center-right senator secured 54.5% of the vote, defeating former right-wing president Jorge Tuto Quiroga, who received 45.4%.