Bolivia Risks Debt Default Without New Funding, Says President

Bolivia's President Luis Arce Catacora gestures during an interview with AFP at the Casa Grande del Pueblo in La Paz on June 18, 2025. (Photo by AIZAR RALDES / AFP)

Bolivia, battling an economic crisis that has plunged it into social unrest, risks defaulting on its loan payments if it does not obtain new foreign financing, President Luis Arce told AFP on Wednesday.

“We are trying not to default. We have every intention of paying our debt, but if we don’t have the resources?” the embattled leader said in an interview in his office in La Paz.

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