This Friday, the Ombudsman, Pedro Callisaya, announced the results of the Pricing Products of General Consumer Products. Of the 21 monitored foods, 11 registered significant increases. According to Callisaya, factors such as speculation, insufficient production, imports, climate change and weak state regulation are directly affecting the Price climbing.
This shot puts in check the right to adequate diet, The official stressed, especially among the most vulnerable sectors in the country. Foods with higher increases include: snapshot milk, granulated sugar, rice First, medium eggs, fluid milk, beef (special and ground pulp), carrots, papaya, short bulk noodles and banana for cooking.
Regional data are overwhelming: between June and July, The price of the kilo of beef of special pulp rose from Bs 50.50 to Bs 61.80 in La Paz, From Bs 41.30 to Bs 51 in Cochabamba, and from Bs 41.70 to Bs 48.70 in Santa Cruz. At the year -on -year level (August 2024 – Julio 2025), the highest increases in special pulp meat were recorded in Trinidad (82 %), Cobija (72 %) and Oruro (65 %). In current ground meat, La Paz leads the rise with 95 %, followed by Potosí (82 %) and Cobija (81 %). The chicken also experienced notable increases: Sucre (+47 %) and Cochabamba (+44 %).
Other essential products also shot up: first/gold grain rice rose 88 % in La Paz, 56 % in Sucre and 55 % in the high. Blanca in bulk flour recorded even more alarming increases: peace (+169 %), high (+100 %), Cochabamba (+86 %) and blanket (+85 %). Likewise, edible oil became strongly more expensive, especially in Trinidad (+89 %), Sucre (+88 %) and Tarija (+72 %).
Faced with this scenario, defender Callisaya urged Government to implement concrete and effective actions to ensure access to basic foods and strengthen control mechanisms. “We will continue monitoring to provide certainty to the population and demand the necessary measures from the authorities,” he concluded.
