IDB Opens Door to Bolivia

IDB Opens Door to Bolivia: Paz and Goldfajn Seal Three-Phase Rescue Plan

By JORGE MACHICADO

Washington D.C., October 31, 2025

In a conference room at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) headquarters, beneath the cold glow of a monitor reading 8:59 a.m., Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz Pereira shook hands with IDB President Ilan Goldfajn. It was not a ceremonial gesture: it was the first handshake to formalize the multilateral lender’s financial and technical support for the Andean nation amid its worst economic crisis in two decades.

The Setting: An Oval Table and Two Flags

The meeting took place on the executive floor of the IDB’s glass-and-steel building in the U.S. capital. Around a dark-wood oval table sat ten people: Paz, sporting a Bolivian flag pin on his lapel; Goldfajn, flanked by dark-suited executives; and a mixed technical team. On the table: steaming coffee cups, IDB-branded folders, and the flags of Bolivia and Brazil—Goldfajn’s home country—as silent witnesses.

The IDB president opened with a personal congratulations: “I came to receive you and congratulate you in person,” Goldfajn later posted on his networks. Paz replied with a restrained smile: “Thank you for the warm welcome and the constructive dialogue.”

The Three-Phase Plan

• Immediate Transition: Secure diesel and gasoline supplies, plus foreign-currency inflows to prevent logistical and financial collapse in the coming weeks.
• Stabilization with Safety Net: Implement measures to shield the most vulnerable from bearing the recovery’s cost.
• Structural Reforms: Design long-term policies to break Bolivia’s recurring crisis cycle.

“Count on the IDB Group to build a more prosperous future,” Goldfajn wrote on X.
Paz responded: “We will continue building opportunities for all together.”

Images That Speak

Participants during the working session at IDB headquarters.

Official handshake sealing the agreement between Bolivia and the IDB.

The Broader Diplomatic Push

The meeting is part of Paz’s Washington offensive. Hours earlier he met with Senator Marco Rubio and other Republican leaders. The message is unequivocal: Bolivia needs urgent financial oxygen, and the IDB will be the first supplier.

Voices from La Paz

In Bolivia, the news landed like a balm. “It’s the first concrete sign the world isn’t turning its back on us,” said a La Paz economic analyst who asked to remain anonymous. At gas stations, where lines stretch over 500 meters, the most repeated phrase is: “Let’s hope the dollars arrive before patience runs out.”

Epilogue in One Line

As Paz left the IDB building, autumn sun already warmed Washington’s streets. In his pocket: a commitment sealed with a handshake and a timeline that, for the first time in months, doesn’t begin with the word “crisis.” It begins with “transition.”

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Shockwave in the Andes

SHOCKWAVE IN THE ANDES: Rubio and Paz Pereira Seal a Dramatic U.S.-Bolivia Pact in Secretive D.C. Showdown

 By   JORGE MACHICADO

Washington, D.C. – October 31, 2025

In a cloak-and-dagger summit that could rewrite the fate of South America, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio locked eyes with Bolivia’s firebrand president-elect Rodrigo Paz Pereira today inside the fortified halls of Foggy Bottom. The 45-minute encounter—doors flung open to a frenzy of flashing cameras at 12:15 p.m.—wasn’t just diplomacy; it was a tectonic shift, ending two decades of icy hostility and igniting a blaze of hope for a nation teetering on the abyss.

Paz Pereira, the 58-year-old exile-born son of a former president, stormed into power just twelve days ago with a landslide 54.5% in a brutal runoff against ex-leader Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga. His victory obliterated the iron grip of Evo Morales’ socialist MAS dynasty, which had ruled since 2006 like a red shadow over the Andes. Now, with inauguration looming on November 8, Paz arrived in Washington not as a supplicant—but as a conqueror demanding a lifeline.

Rubio, the first Latino Secretary of State and Trump’s razor-sharp enforcer of “America First,” didn’t mince words. “This is a transformational earthquake for Bolivia—and for our hemisphere,” he thundered, according to leaked State Department transcripts.

Sources whisper the duo hammered out a $1.5 billion emergency fuel-stabilization deal—a financial defibrillator for a country choking on dollar shortages, vanishing gas reserves, and the worst economic collapse in forty years.

Behind closed doors, the stakes were apocalyptic:

• Rebooting narco-war cooperation severed since 2009, when Morales expelled the DEA in a fit of rage.
• Crushing transnational cartels now flooding Bolivia with cocaine and chaos.
• A vow to shield social programs while unleashing “capitalism for all”—Paz’s battle cry against the “absolute failure” of two lost decades.

Paz, voice cracking with emotion, stared down reporters: “After twenty years of betrayal, Bolivia rises again. With America, we’ll hunt narcoterrorists, crush corrupting, and rebuild a nation the world forgot.” His eyes—haunted by childhood exile in Franco’s Spain—flashed with defiance.

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This wasn’t Rubio’s first strike. A clandestine October 22 call already pledged U.S. muscle to “dismantle criminal empires” strangling the region. Atlantic Council hawks call it the boldest U.S. pivot in Latin America since the Cold War. Trump himself, sources say, green-lit the summit with a single directive: “Bring Bolivia back—or bury the socialists for good.”

Yet danger lurks. Paz inherits a fractured Congress, a restless indigenous base still loyal to Morales, and streets that could erupt if reforms bite too hard. One wrong move, and the Andes could burn.

As the two leaders clasped hands for the cameras the message was unmistakable:

The red era is dead. A new, volatile alliance is born.
The world holds its breath. Will this be Bolivia’s salvation—or the spark of a civil war?

Bolivia’s Midnight Miracle

Rodrigo Paz Pereira Storms Washington In 24-Hour Blitz To Save A Nation On The Brink

By JORGE MACHICADO

Washington/La Paz, Oct 31, 2025 – He arrived at dawn, coat collar up, eyes burning with the fire of a man who just buried two decades of socialist rule. Less than a day after crushing Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga with a landslide 54.6%, Rodrigo Paz Pereira—Bolivia’s president-elect—touched down in the U.S. capital like a general seizing the high ground before the enemy even wakes.

“Every door. Every capital. Every dollar. We are not asking—we are demanding Bolivia’s survival.”

He thundered to aides as Marine One’s shadow still loomed over the Andes.

The War Room: IMF, World Bank, and a Fuel Lifeline

Inside marble corridors that once ignored La Paz, Paz stormed closed-door sessions with the titans of global finance:

• IMF – “No more lectures. Give us the dollars or watch a nation implode.”
• World Bank – “Invest now, or bury the hemisphere’s next Venezuela.”
• IDB & CAF – “Fuel ships sail November 8. Sign here.”

By dusk, a U.S.-backed fuel pipeline was locked in—gasoline and diesel guaranteed to flow the moment Paz raises his hand in oath. Sources whisper the deal was sealed with a single sentence:

“Trump’s America wants a partner, not a patient. Bolivia chooses partner.”

The Knife Twist: “MAS Left Us a Corpse”

From 30,000 feet, Paz eviscerated the Arce regime:

“They bled the reserves, torched the fields, and handed us a smoking ruin. History will judge them. I judge them now.”

Cabinet bombshells loom. José Luis Lupo—the iron-fisted economist—and Gabriel Espinoza—the infrastructure hawk—are reportedly hours from confirmation.

Inauguration Countdown: Allies Converge

In La Paz, the city holds its breath. Luis Fernando Camacho roars loyalty from Santa Cruz. Gabriel Boric and Javier Milei—left and right united in curiosity—jet in next week. The message is clear: the hemisphere is watching.

Final vote tally still awaits the Tribunal’s stamp, but the verdict is already carved in stone: MAS is dead. Paz is alive. And the clock ticks to November 8.

As Air Force jets screamed overhead, Paz stared out at the Potomac and whispered to an aide:

“They thought we’d celebrate. We’re just getting started.”

MACHICADO, J., “Bolivia’s Midnight Miracle”, https://jorgemachicado.blogspot.com/2025/10/bolivias-midnight-miracle.html –