Our Scans · Bolivia · Weekly Summary

• For 2070 the area of habitat suitability is predicted to increase regions of the western US, Brazil and Bolivia, and concomitantly decrease in the southern US, northern Brazil, Paraguay, and central Argentina. PubMed Central (PMC)
• The constitutional and fiscal pivot: Paz committed to a 50/50 fiscal redistribution between the central level and the regions starting with the 2027 General Budget - a structural answer to the long-running gobernador demand for resource decentralization. / Bolivia The Rio Times
• Russia, Bolivia and the British Virgin Islands have been added to the list of countries with increased money laundering risk, while Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania have been removed. ProjectiveGroup
• El Nino typically brings heavier rains and flooding risk to Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, but below-normal rainfall to Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, eastern Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Zero Carbon Analytics
• In low- and middle-income countries, Novartis Global Health unit is currently running CHIs in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bolivia to reach patients beyond conventional commercial channels, with expansion planned to at least seven more countries by 2030. GlobeNewswire
• Other nations with significant but yet-to-be exploited lithium brine resources, such as Bolivia, could follow suit. Heatmap News
• The concentration of lithium brine deposits across Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile creates both an opportunity and a strategic dilemma for allied supply chains. Discovery Alert
• Over the five years to 2022, production from Bolivia increased by a CAGR of 109% and is expected to rise by a CAGR of 186% between 2023 and 2027. Mining Technology
• The Chilean Armed Forces will eventually build a system of trenches, walls, cameras, and sensors along the border under its Frontier Shield Plan, although some portions, particularly along the border with Bolivia, are considered impassable mountainous terrain not requiring further physical barriers. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• In regional comparison, Mexico ranks near the bottom of the projected growth table for 2026, far behind economies such as Guyana, Paraguay and Costa Rica, and only above countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia and Cuba. UPI
• On the other hand, developing a new facility in Bolivia for a nuclear medicine center in El Alto, which will facilitate a cyclotron to produce radiopharmaceuticals locally. Precedence Research

Last updated: 23 June 2026