Bolivia: Fábrica Nacional de Cemento (FANCESCA) will temporarily halt production due to a diesel shortage, which it ...

Waiting in line for hours, often in vain, for basics such as cooking oil has become a way of life in Bolivia, where anger ...

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Blockades by supporters of former President Evo Morales are disrupting the transport of 346 fuel tankers carrying 8.9 million ...

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The drilling operations of the Yapucaiti-X1 (YAP-X1) well will allow Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) to evaluate the hydrocarbon ...

Sources: Bolivian authorities (MEFP, Ministry of Planning, BCB, INE, UDAPE); IMF; Fund staff calculations. 1/ Excludes YPFB profits/losses. 2/ Includes net lending. 3/ Public debt includes SOE's ...

gerente de Contratos de Exportación de Gas Natural de YPFB, poco antes en un comunicado. “Bolivia tiene una capacidad de hasta 200 millones de dólares sólo en el transporte del gas argentino ...

In countries like Bolivia, they were found to have bribed authorities to obtain benevolent licenses, including the sale of shares in the state-owned YPFB. In Peru and Ecuador, manipulation of the ...

Notably, Supreme Decree 5348, enacted on March 10, 2025, allows the state-owned Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) to access dollars from private banking accounts to fund fuel ...

"From now on, these (cryptocurrency) transactions will be carried out," a YPFB spokesperson told Reuters. Bolivia is not the first South American country to attempt to use crypto for energy payments.

The decision by YPFB comes as Bolivia faces a painful shortage of dollars and fuel. The details of how this will affect the country’s energy imports or the broader economy were not disclosed.