[News] Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz will travel to the United States to address the fuel shortage.

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He seeks to negotiate cooperation in fuel supply.

Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz announced this Saturday that he will travel to the United States next week to negotiate cooperation on fuel supplies, a situation that has kept the po[CENSORED]tion in crisis, once he is sworn in as president on November 8.

Paz met this Saturday in the eastern city of Santa Cruz with the country's business and productive sectors to outline the initial steps to emerge from Bolivia's economic crisis.

"Next week we will travel to Washington because that is where multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, are located, with which we have had arduous, intense contacts since the country decided and assumed that the government is in our hands," he said at a press conference.

He affirmed that once he and his team take office, "gasoline and diesel are guaranteed."

“Until November 8, the current government bears full responsibility for the current situation. Once we are responsible for the faith of the state, that responsibility is ours, and we will fulfill our duty to supply fuel so we can recover the normalcy that the country so desperately needs,” Paz said.

The president-elect also announced that he will bring Bolivia “good news” regarding the supply of gasoline and diesel, but “also, regarding the need for the dollar that we have, God willing, with very good news for the national economy.”

Paz thanked the United States and seven other countries in the Americas for their support in helping Bolivia emerge from the economic crisis.

A statement released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of State states that the United States, along with Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago, “are willing to support the incoming administration's efforts to stabilize Bolivia's economy and open it to the world, strengthen its democratic institutions, and boost international trade and investment.”
Paz defeated former right-wing president Jorge Tuto Quiroga (2001-2002) with 54.96% to 45.04% in a historic presidential runoff held on October 19.

Since the beginning of 2023, Bolivia has faced a persistent shortage of foreign currency, which coincided with the report that the country's net international reserves (NIR) reached $3.148 billion, compared to the record of $15.122 billion recorded in 2014.

Furthermore, lines of vehicles at gas stations have become a constant over the past year, while cumulative inflation between January and July was 16.92%, above the official projection of 7.5% for all of 2025.

 

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