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Bolivia’s Zombie Apocalypse, Part VI: The Virus Has Found Its Host

Fortun examines the financing and credibility required for Rodrigo Paz's gradual adjustment plans, emphasizing depleted reserves, fuel subsidies and the sequencing of external support.

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Agora “pós-socialista”, Bolívia volta às urnas na espera de grande teste econômico

Coverage cites Fortun's assessment of Bolivia's depleted public finances and the difficult pace of adjustment facing the next government.

Bolivia’s Zombie Apocalypse, Part V: The Blackout Frontier

Fortun links declining gas production, rising electricity demand and costly fuel imports to the risk of energy shortages, describing a physical constraint beyond the election outcome.

Bolivia’s Zombie Apocalypse, Part IV: Bitten at the Pump... the Shape of Things to Come

Fortun compares fuel-subsidy reforms abroad with Bolivia's constraints, warning that price shocks and weak political capacity make the impending adjustment socially difficult.

Bolivia’s Zombie Apocalypse, Part III: The Virus Has Spread

Fortun argues that unsterilized domestic gold purchases expand liquidity and transmit fiscal strain into inflation, exchange-rate distrust and deteriorating monetary control.

They Don’t Die. They Borrow: Bolivia’s Undead (The Zombie Saga Pt. 2)

Fortun connects the political transition with opaque gold-backed financing and growing pension-fund exposure to public debt, arguing that these arrangements restrict future policy choices.

Zombies at the Polls: Bolivia’s Political Undead Refuse to Die

Fortun interprets Bolivia's election as a reshuffling of established political forces and compares the fiscal, financing and institutional obstacles awaiting the next government.

Bolivia’s Macroeconomic Freefall, Part IV: Fiscal Fury Meets the Politics of the Impossible

Fortun argues that Bolivia's fiscal adjustment faces severe political and employment constraints, challenging bond-market optimism about a straightforward post-election turnaround.