Oruro

Planteamos el material, lo ponemos encima de la mesa y son ustedes los que eligen si creen o no en este tipo de videos.

Y bueno, ahora nos vamos a Oruro, a Bolivia.

Bolivia, saludos grandísimo a toda la gente de Bolivia.

Bolivia tiene una zona de sierra, de cordillera, en donde las altitudes son bastante amplias y Oruro está allí y alrededor de Oruro, donde hay un carnaval muy bonito, hay una gran cantidad de terrenos, el altiplano, donde se cultiva.

En los últimos años, pues se utilizan ahora drones.

Drones para mirar los cultivos, drones para mirar lo-- el ganado.

Es muy raro.

Y se asustaron muchísimo.

For years, the official line was that the dip was temporary.

Then, at an event in Oruro in late August 2023, President Luis Arce, Morales' former economy minister and successor, said it plainly.

Production, he said, had been declining since around 2014 and had kept falling hasta toca fondo until it hit rock bottom.

He admitted that reserves consumed over those years had not been replaced and that the country couldn't produce more.

Okay.

I want to obviously talk to you about your sort of two projects, the Silver Sun project in Potosi and Corangas in Oruro.

Yeah.

Um, but before we get into that, we are here at an investor conference, so let me ask you about, uh, investor interest in Bolivia.

Right

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in Oruro.

What were some of the highlights of that PEA, and what were some of the things you were most pleased with?

Protesters also temporarily blocked the Potosí-Sucre Highway.

The planned transport strike on September 28, organised by the Bolivian Trade Union Confederation of Drivers, was only partially observed in Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, Oruro and Potosí.

Blockades were also reported at the entrance to the State Oil and Gas Company's office in Santa Cruz.

However, former President Evo Morales has threatened renewed protests from October 13th unless the government repeals Supreme Decree 5716 and other contested economic measures by the October 3rd deadline.

However, demonstrations have largely remained fragmented rather than developing into a large-scale nationwide protest movement likely due to the state of emergency.

The government has engaged in negotiations with leaders from some sectors and deployed police and military personnel along key trunk routes, including the La Paz-Oruro, Oruro-Cochabamba and El Alto-Tequina corridors, to deter or rapidly dismantle roadblocks.

However, these measures are unlikely to counter opposition to the subsidy removal.

The significant increase in diesel prices is likely to sustain grievances among transport operators, farmers and other fuel-intensive sectors.