BOLIVIA: Stable

At the six-month mark on a soul-trying stabilization program, Bolivia took a look around last week to see if the stern anti-inflation measure was actually working. By most of the signs, it was. But with rumblings from labor on the rise, the question now is how much longer the nation would keep taking the medicine.

Plentiful Food. Long queues, once the most characteristic street scene in La Paz, have disappeared. Instead of lining up for supplies of subsidized food and then rushing to sell them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free...

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