( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “food prices soaring.” Across what was once South America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, everyone is searching for fuel. [CutID: <Cuts> BOLIVIA-ECONOMY-house-q-THUpm.mp3 Time: 20s Title: BOLIVIA-ECONOMY-house-q-THUpm Out-cue: food prices soaring] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Mounting public anger has sent crowds into the streets in recent weeks, piling […]
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Bolivia faces a shocking economic collapse
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “food prices soaring.”
Across what was once South America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, everyone is searching for fuel.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Mounting public anger has sent crowds into the streets in recent weeks, piling pressure on leftist President Luis Arce to ease the suffering ahead of a tense presidential election next year.
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VERBATIM: Long lines of vehicles snake for several miles outside gas stations all over Bolivia. Some queues don’t budge for days. Bolivia’s fuel crunch follows a currency collapse that is increasingly disrupting economic activity and everyday life for millions of people, hurting commerce and farm production and sending food prices soaring.