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Bolivia’s Runoff Debate: ‘Dollars Now’ Versus ‘Cuts First’
Fuel lines snake through Bolivian cities and cash machines run short of dollars. One week before the October 19 presidential runoff, the country’s two contenders offered starkly different ways out. Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, a conservative former president (2001–2002), argues the quickest path to normality is external financing—quick-disbursing programs that put hard currency back in banks […]
In Bolivia, the two qualified candidates for the second round of the presidential election clashed, on the evening of 12 October, during a television debate. At one week of the vote, centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and conservative Jorge Quiroga, mainly debated proposals to solve inflation, but also the fuel and dollar shortages that hit the country.
The collapse of natural gas revenues in Bolivia has caused a chronic shortage of hard currency, dollars, and in turn fuel shortages and inflation that exceeds 23% on an annual basis.
Presidential in Bolivia: Which president on the right to get the country out of the crisis? Admin FCE 14 Oct 2025 - 05:07 Bolivians will choose their next president on Sunday between a former right-wing head of state, Jorge Quiroga, or a center-right senator, Rodrigo Paz. Both promise to re-establish the country, after 20 years of left-wing governments and a deep economic crisis.The collapse of gas revenues, long a pillar of the Bolivian economy…
The study reveals that 62% of the participants considered the PDC candidate more convincing, compared to 35% who saw Tuto Quiroga win According to the results of 18 focal groups held during Sunday’s presidential debate, Rodrigo Paz was perceived as the winner of the meeting with 62% of preferences, while Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga obtained 35%. The study, developed by Xtrategia Política under the direction of consultant Ricardo Paz Ballivian, included…
The opposition candidates Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga promised this Sunday to inject dollars into the Bolivian economy—currently in crisis—and to guarantee the supply of fuels, during the presidential debate heading for the unpublished second round to be held on October 19.The centrist senator Paz and former conservative president Quiroga (2001-2002) presented their proposals in the debate organized by the Supreme Electoral Trib…
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