Guardian - We tracked Bolivia’s fugitive president to his remote jungle hideout

This was posted on YouTube on 8th May, 2025. The Guardian sent their  São Paulo-based Latin America correspondent Tiago Rogero and a New York-based cameraman to Bolivia to make this. It must've cost quite a lot. See their written piece: Plotting a comeback, Bolivia’s ex-leader defies arrest warrant in jungle hideout.

People are terrified of what happened in Venezuela. See People in El Dorado in Venezuela Using Gold Nuggets as Money. The Bolivian Banco Central is 100% state-owned, but its sole purpose is implementing monetary policy. Before he left for São Paulo in November 2017, Luis Arce was Minister of Economy and Public Finance and he is credited by many to have been the brains behind "Evonomics," which was the financial strategy that drew large amounts of capital into the Central Bank and allowed for the high level of public spending that Evo Morales' administration could sustain.

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In June 2024 there was this CGTN America interview: Bolivian President Luis Arce discusses failed coup attempt:

 

On 24th September 2024 WION published this report

Only a few months before leaving for Brazil in 2017, ostensibly to receive medical treatment not available in Bolivia, Arce signed off on a 40 (or 400?) Million BOB injection of liquidity. I can't find any references for this in English, but I remember reading it in the newspapers in Cochabamba after the 2016 referendum. He returned to his post in January 2019 and resigned in November 2019, shortly before Morales fled to Mexico.

According to Wikipedia, Luis Arce did a Masters degree in economics at the University of Warwick, on the outskirts of Coventry in England and "From 1992 to 2005, he worked in the International Operations Management of the Central Bank of Bolivia as Deputy Manager of Reserves. Between 1994 and 1995, he was promoted to head of the Department of Information and Publications, of the Research and Analysis Sub-management, under the Management of Economic Studies of the Central Bank of Bolivia".

This is a film about Central Banks based on the book Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner. See Kim Iversen and Richard Werner. Werner says that you need to get the book from https://quantumpublishers.com/quantum_publishers_book_shop.html because " the book you get from Amazon is not the original version"

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