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Bolivia

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Political Economy & MarketsSeptember 23, 2026

Mercosur South America regional integration EU–Mercosur customs union

Mercosur in 2026: from democratic rapprochement to an incomplete customs union facing its largest external opening

A structural reconstruction of Mercosur as a political peace project, imperfect customs union, production network and external negotiating platform at the moment Bolivia is incorporated and the EU agreement enters provisional application.

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Global System & PowerSeptember 23, 2026

Bolivia economic history gas lithium hyperinflation

Bolivia: extractive cycles, revolutionary redistribution and the foreign-exchange constraint after the gas boom

Bolivia's history links silver, tin, gas and lithium to repeated struggles over who controls resource rents and how a landlocked, high-altitude economy integrates with neighbours; in 2026 falling buffers, inflation and recession make macro stabilization and export reconstruction the immediate structural test.

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