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Friday, April 3, 2026

Islam in America > Two Somali-American judges caught working for Sinaloa and CJNG cartels; "Allahu Akbar your butt back to the Middle East; Faribault - Somali City in Minnesota

 

💥 TWO SOMALI-AMERICAN JUDGES ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS DAWN RAID: 3.25 TONS OF COCAINE & $1.5 BILLION JUDICIAL FRAUD NETWORK EXPOSED At 4:18 a.m., over 200 federal agents stormed 17 locations across Minneapolis and St. Paul, shattering the sanctity of the justice system. The targets: sitting federal judges Amina Hassan and Khaled Osman — a married couple who allegedly used their courtrooms to shield the Sinaloa and CJNG cartels. Agents discovered hidden stashes of cocaine, firearms, and encrypted devices mapping drug shipment routes. The judges were accused of systematically dismissing cases, destroying evidence, delaying warrants, and clearing paths for massive cartel operations while laundering over $1.5 billion through shell companies and fake nonprofits. They didn’t just fail to deliver justice — they allegedly sold it. A trusted judicial dynasty turned the bench into a cartel shield. The gavel has fallen. The robes are off. The empire of corruption is collapsing.



Alabama attorney general candidate Jay Mitchell: ‘Allahu Akbar your butt all the way back to the Middle East’


Close attention should be paid to the deceitful words of Shakir Mustafa in response to Jay Mitchell. Mustafa is  teaching professor of Arabic at Northeastern University. He references “ignorance” of Islam and the Qur’an. He also insults the intelligence of infidels when he states that “the phrase ‘Allahu Akbar,’ in the form that these extremists are using it, simply does not appear in the Quran.” The issue is not whether “Allahu akbar” appears in the Qur’an. The issue is the context and meaning of “Allahu akbar,” and why jihadis frequently shout it before a violent attack. Mustafa fails to explain any of this. Instead, he deflects attention away from the real issue by talking about whether “Allahu akbar” appears in the Qur’an; he conveniently avoids discussing what is actually said in Islamic texts, and why jihadists do shout “Allahu akbar” when they murder people as instructed:

“Let those who sell the life of this world for the next fight in the way of Allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, on him we will bestow a great reward.” (Quran 4:74)

A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” (Sahih Muslim 20:4655)

In the words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 2797)

So when jihadists shout “Allahu akbar” before doing exactly what is commanded in the Qur’an and Hadith, it is a declaration of their faith in Allah as being “greater” than the God or gods of the infidel or infidels. The praises of Allah ring out just as the infidels are about to be violently killed in the name of Allah.

Taqiyya (dissimulation) is another practice in Islam. As Muhammad said: “War is deceit.”(Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2637). Islamic scholars such as Shakir Mustafa easily play Westerners for fools. These alleged authorities actively deceive non-Muslims and avoid discussing the violent, abusive and supremacist verses in the Qur’an and Hadiths.

The Washington Post some years ago described ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar.” The Post was rightfully ridiculed for this, but al-Baghdadi did actually have a PhD in Islamic theology, and so was a much greater scholar of Islam than Shakir Mustafa. Al-Baghdadi earned his bachelor’s degree in Sharia studies from the University of Baghdad, later completed advanced studies in Qur’anic recitation, and earned his master’s degree and doctorate in Qur’anic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad. He went on to follow what he learned, and to lead others to do the same. So while the WaPo may have shot itself in the foot by praising him while insisting that Islam is a religion of peace, the publication was inadvertently revealing an inconvenient truth about what al-Baghdadi was in Islam, in which the highest calling is martyrdom (being killed while killing infidels) for the sake of Allah.

Normative Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of conquest. Jay Mitchell’s wording does not reflect ignorance. It reflects utter frustration over the willful ignorance of the West in the truth about Islam.

Jay and Elizabeth Mitchell with Jeri, freddthompson, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0


‘You can Allahu Akbar your butt all the way back to the Middle East’: 

Republican slams ‘radical Islam’ in new ad,” AL.com, March 30, 2026:

Alabama attorney general candidate Jay Mitchell has a new ad in which he tells those who “stand with radical Islam” to “Allahu Akbar your butt all the way back to the Middle East.”

The Arabic phrase translates to “God is greater.”

It also has a long history of being misused by religious extremists in Middle Eastern countries who have coopted the phrase as a rallying cry, falsely referencing the Quran to claim Islamic superiority over all other religions, according to Shakir Mustafa, teaching professor of Arabic at Northeastern University.

“Much of the success of Islamic fundamentalism is based in ignorance or in manipulating other peoples’ ignorance of what the religion is and what the Quran says,” Mustafa told the university news site in 2017.

“The phrase ‘Allahu Akbar,’ in the form that these extremists are using it, simply does not appear in the Quran.”

All current YouTube comments under Mitchell’s ad take issue with his choice of phrase.

“This is so beneath the office you’re seeking,” one reads.

“Can’t believe he said Allahu Akbar,” another reads.

“So offensive and ignorant. What a pathetic ad reflecting the exact state of this country right now.”…

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Minnesota: Somalis Demand Schools Teach in Somali So Their Kids Don’t Learn English


Scenes from the Somali takeover of a mostly white Minnesota town.

The AU Special Representative for Somalia and Head of AMISOM Ambassador Maman Sidikou in Minnesota, AMISOM Public Information, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication


Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.

But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.

The city of over 20,000 used to be much less diverse. In 1990, it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it, with a shudder, “an almost entirely homogeneous white community, not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration, and it had a meat processing plant, now partly shut down, which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.

Now Faribault is much more diverse and it has problems that it didn’t used to have.

Faribault was the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides, interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.

It was also part of the $250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.

Faribault’s part in the massive fraud in which nonprofits claimed to be providing free meals to hundreds of thousands of Somali kids who didn’t exist came through the Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) run by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali, who made off with $5 million in meal funds after claiming that their restaurant in Faribault, which only had 9 tables, was serving meals to 1,600 children a day and had served a total of 700,000 meals.

The Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2,500 children a day. Sizable amounts of kickbacks were paid to a man who then fled to Somalia. The Minnesota Post’s article praising the Somali takeover of Faribault had hailed SAFE, claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.

The other non-profit promoted by the Post article, the ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’, which operates out of the massive 115-year-old historic Gale Mansion, often used as a wedding venue, has been linked to one Faribault meal site that claimed to be offering 2,000 meals a day.

The  ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly $3 million for the free meals and Somali elected officials had proposed bills that would pour millions into the organization.

The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where $1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali, initially identified only as a Somali mother, went.

“‘We need help.’ This sentiment, expressed by a Somali mother about the specific concern of youth drug use and the more general frustration of trying to parent in a new culture, captures the heart of this grant proposal.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services responded with nearly $1 million for the Faribault schools that was supposedly used to provide Somali services.

Faribault is much more diverse now with an estimated 4,600 Somalis out of 25,000 people. The white population has dropped to 65% and the school system is even more diverse.

Minority enrollment in the city’s schools was up 243% in twenty years. By 2018, minority students made up a majority of the school system.  Today, 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white. A population of older white homeowners is subsidizing education and services for Somali and South American migrant meatpacking plant workers with their property taxes.

The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science, health and social studies in Somali.  As of 2022, there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.

The Somali education program was proposed after complaints from Somalis and other migrants that their “home languages were being lost as students became more English-dominant” and “parents and children no longer shared a common language, weakening communication and cultural connections within families.” Rather than expecting their parents to learn English, Faribault schools are expected to prevent their children from learning English, instead teaching them in Somali.

Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%, science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores, graduation rates, attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.

What would Faribault be like if it were less diverse and Somali? Faribault school statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math, science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science. Call it the ‘Somali Effect’.

Faribault is more diverse, it’s also more dangerous and has linked up with the epicenter of Somali fraud in the Twin Cities. Its schools are failing and it has no future.

“Faribault has become our city,” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.



Thursday, April 2, 2026

The Islamization of America > Pittsburg antisemites beat up Jew; Texas Cities Approve Ramadan Proclamations; Muslim destroys Jesus statue in Catholic church

 

‘Pennsylvania men,’ Muhammed, Omar, Ibrahim, Emirhan, Ali, and Adeel, attack Jewish man, cover up the crime


Is the key common denominator that ties together Muhammed Koc, Omar Alshmari, Abraham Choudhry, Emirhan Arslan, Ali Alkhaleel, and Adeel Piracha, and that elucidates why they wanted to commit this crime, really the fact that they all live in Pennsylvania? Or could it be something else? It’s a mystery!

Pennsylvania Dutch Market, Bohemian Baltimore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0


US feds charge 6 with attacking Jewish man,

conspiring to cover it up

by Luke Tress, Times of Israel, March 31, 2026:

US federal authorities on Monday announced charges against six Pennsylvania men for attacking a Jewish man and conspiring to hide their involvement and mislead investigators.

The case stood out because the investigation gave a rare look at how alleged antisemitic assailants discussed their crime behind the scenes, hid their anti-Jewish animus and conflated Jews and Israel.

The charges stem from a late-night incident in September 2024, when five of the defendants made antisemitic comments, including “F*** the Jews” and “F*** Israel,” to a Jewish passerby in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the criminal complaint said.

The man was identifiably Jewish because he was wearing a Star of David pendant outside his shirt, the US Department of Justice said.

The victim stopped to confront the defendants, who made further antisemitic comments, such as “I hate Jews and I hate Israel,” told the victim that he should not be wearing a Star of David, and showed him some of their own necklaces that had Arabic script.

The verbal dispute escalated and two of the defendants, Muhammed Koc, 27, and Omar Alshmari, 28, punched and kicked the victim, splitting his lip and causing other minor injuries.

The other defendants who were at the scene were Abraham Choudhry, 22, Emirhan Arslan, 24, and Ali Alkhaleel, 19. A sixth defendant, Adeel Piracha, 22, was involved in the cover-up, but was not at the scene. All are residents of the Pittsburgh region.

After the attack, the victim reported the incident to law enforcement and the FBI opened an investigation….

After the defendants all received subpoenas, Arslan told the Snapchat group, “We gotta say the same s**t.”…




Texas cities approved Ramadan proclamations recognizing ‘Islamic season,’ approved by city councils and mayors


Disturbing news out of Texas involving Ramadan, which ended March 19, as the state has become a battleground for Sharia incursion. 


Texas Cities Approve Ramadan Proclamations

by Hunter Burney, Texas Scorecard, March 31, 2026:

A growing number of Ramadan proclamations have been approved by city councils and mayors across Texas. The cities of McKinney, DeSoto, Richardson, and Cedar Park are among those confirmed to have made the announcements recognizing the Islamic season. The City of McKinney Ramadan proclamation states that the season “marks the first revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammed,” and was signed by Mayor Bill Cox. Cox is a professed memberof the First United Methodist Church of McKinney and cites this as a reflection of his “strong faith.” McKinney has also issued a proclamation in the past recognizing Diwali, a major Hindu holiday, according to TX3DNews.

A post by the City of DeSoto states that Mayor Rachel L. Proctor released a proclamation recognizing “the holy month of Ramadan.” The proclamation purportedly honors “a time of prayer, fasting, reflection, generosity, and service observed by Muslims around the world.” In a Facebook post commenting on Richardson Mayor Amir Omar’s proclamation of Ramadan, Imam Saeed Purcell of MAS Dallas stated, “with EPIC [East Plano Islamic Center] and everything else going on, these sorts of public recognitions of Islam … are very vital because they help raise awareness.”

The Ismaili Youth for the Southwestern USA praised Mayor Jim Pennimen-Morin of Cedar Park’s proclamation of Ramadan as “[highlighting] the City’s dedication to fostering inclusion, pluralism, and celebration of diversity,” according to a recent Facebook post…AA growing number of Ramadan proclamations have been approved by city councils and mayors across Texas. The cities of McKinney, DeSoto, Richardson, and Cedar Park are among those confirmed to have made the announcements recognizing the Islamic season.

The City of McKinney Ramadan proclamation states that the season “marks the first revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammed,” and was signed by Mayor Bill Cox. Cox is a professed member of the First United Methodist Church of McKinney and cites this as a reflection of his “strong faith.” McKinney has also issued a proclamation in the past recognizing Diwali, a major Hindu holiday, according to TX3DNews. A post by the City of DeSoto states that Mayor Rachel L. Proctor released a proclamation recognizing “the holy month of Ramadan.” The proclamation purportedly honors “a time of prayer, fasting, reflection, generosity, and service observed by Muslims around the world.” In a Facebook post commenting on Richardson Mayor Amir Omar’s proclamation of Ramadan, Imam Saeed Purcell of MAS Dallas stated, “with EPIC [East Plano Islamic Center] and everything else going on, these sorts of public recognitions of Islam … are very vital because they help raise awareness.” The Ismaili Youth for the Southwestern USA praised Mayor Jim Pennimen-Morin of Cedar Park’s proclamation of Ramadan as “[highlighting] the City’s dedication to fostering inclusion, pluralism, and celebration of diversity,” according to a recent Facebook post.

Photo: Creative Commons


An article in the Qatari State Daily Al-Watan highlighted what Ramadan is really about. The piece glorified “Islamic victories” during Islam’s holy month. While Ramadan is a time of piety and fasting for Muslims, it is also the month of “jihad, conquest and martyrdom.” MEMRI notes that Adham Al-Sharqawi, a Palestinian author and a columnist for the paper, “glorified the many Islamic wars, battles, and victories that took place throughout history” during the month of Ramadan.

Among other battles, Al-Sharqawi mentions the Battle of Badr at the dawn of Islam (in 624 CE), in which “Islam first drew its sword to defend the Qur’an”; the Prophet Muhammad’s conquest of Mecca (620); the Battle of Tours (732), in which the Muslims of Al-Andalus made their farthest advance into Europe before being repelled; the Battle of Ain Jalut (1260), in which the Muslims defeated the Byzantines; and the Battle of Shaqhab (1303), in which Ibn Taymiyya, a Sunni Muslim jurisprudent known as a source of inspiration for Salafi-jihadism, also took part “because religious rulings do not replace the [duty of] jihad!” In the article Al-Sharqawi promises that “the sword [of Islam] will remain aloft until the last of the [Muslim] nation fights the False Messiah,” i.e., until the end of days.

Some excerpts from the article:

O my friend, Ramadan has arrived, the month in which throats are parched but hearts are full; in which stomachs are empty but souls are replenished; in which the body grows weak but faith grows stronger; in which [physical] activity subsides but faith intensifies! So, my friend, renew your faith, for Allah has no need for our abstaining from food and drink; He sends us Ramadan in order to cleanse us and purify us anew, so that we may be worthy of Him…

O my friend, Ramadan has arrived. If hunger exhausts you and thirst drains your strength, take comfort in [remembering] those who, despite their hunger and thirst, raised their swords, risked their lives, and sold their souls to Allah so that Ramadan might remain for us!

Many Westerners would assume that Al-Sharqawi’s words represent a twisting or perversion of Islam. They are wrong. This is what mainstream Islam is about, as these sentiments are echoed across the board by Islamic scholars, clerics, leaders and by academics at the foremost school of Islamic learning, al-Azhar in Cairo. Al-Sharqawi is a devout man who ascribes to the Sharia. These are just a few of the many Islamic texts that serve as a model for Muslims about what Islam is and what it means to be “good” and “holy”:

“Let those who sell the life of this world for the next fight in the way of Allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, on him we will bestow a great reward.” (Quran 4:74)

A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” (Sahih Muslim 20:4655)

In the words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 2797)

As Muhammad has also said: “war is deceit.” (Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2637). This deceit is routinely used against naive Westerners. The Texas city councils and mayors who approved Ramadan proclamations are utterly clueless about the Sharia and what Islam is. Willfully blind leftists are being played for fools and exploited stealthily as they remain immersed in their own DEI wishful thinking. To many Muslims, Islam is as much a political system as it is a religion, causing a blurring of lines for Westerners, many of whom view it to be nothing more than a religion like any other. Since not all Muslims ascribe to the Sharia — which mainstream Islam considers to be divine and immutable — Westerners (particularly leftists) choose to see only those who do not, and also ignore the 1400-year expansionary history of Islam, as well as current events that prove that Islam continues its mission of conquest and subjugation.  There is no freedom of religion and gender equality in Sharia states, and the freedom of speech is nonexistent. In the West, meanwhile, the “Islamophobia” battering ram comes down hard on those who say something that some Muslims consider offensive to Islam. This subterfuge, which cleverly hides behind DEI, actually amounts to the enforcement of Islamic blasphemy laws.

Islam is still expanding its domains globally as Islamic leaders, violent jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood operatives employ violent and stealthy means (sometimes a combination of both) in infidel lands. Islamic supremacists are more violent in the Middle East and Africa, given the size of Muslim populations. In the West, most efforts at expanding Islam are stealthy, but will become increasingly violent as the Islamic population grows or Sharia proponents become emboldened. Islam’s violent wing became more open and aggressive in the West after October 7.

Meanwhile,  Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick identified “preventing Sharia law” as one of his top five priorities for the Texas Senate ahead of 2027. Patrick, who controls the Senate agenda, has instructed lawmakers to study the issue and provide legislative recommendations to ensure that “only state and federal laws apply in Texas.” Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has also listed his priorities, including “a directive for the House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee to review existing Texas law to ensure that Sharia law or any other foreign law contrary to the U.S. and Texas constitutions has not permeated into other judicial and legal matters in Texas.”

According to KRVG News:

Taken together, those charges are a nod to GOP efforts to shut down Muslim groups in Texas, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, which Abbott has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Texas Republicans aren’t battling only Sharia incursion, but also Democrat-supporting, leftist frontline pawns who cling to their utopian dream of everyone getting along, despite history and obvious evidence. Note, however, that they don’t care about getting along with anyone who follows the Judeo-Christian tradition. These same hypocrites have little to say about the treatment of dissidents or the oppression of women in Islamic countries, black slavery in Mauritania, Sudan, Algeria, and Libya, the kafala system in most Middle Eastern and Gulf countries, or the killing of gays and persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in those countries. America can do without Sharia advancing in the U.S., as it has supplanted every single rival legal and societal system throughout history when it was emboldened to do so, or otherwise took the territory by the sword. The Sharia is rooted in Islamic supremacy, which demands special treatment and unreasonable accommodations for Muslims everywhere.

See HERE for more about what’s been going on in Texas, including a “Church conquest warning” amid the proliferation of mosques, with 42 new mosques in Dallas area alone.




California: Muslim reciting Qur’an verses destroys century-old statue of Jesus in Catholic church


Muslims believe that representations of the human figure are idolatrous, and that Christians are idolatrous and under the curse of Allah for believing Jesus is the Son of God (cf. Qur’an 9:30). And so, this.

Is this good news or bad news?

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Latin America Rising > Sabotage intensifies fuel crisis in Bolivia

 

Bolivia alleges fuel sabotage tied to international criminal network

Bilivan consumers have felt the impact of contaminated gasoline. More than 10,000 vehicle owners, including long-distance transport operators and private drivers, have reported severe engine damage. File Photo by Luis Gandarilas/EPA
Bilivan consumers have felt the impact of contaminated gasoline. More than 10,000 vehicle owners, including long-distance transport operators and private drivers, have reported severe engine damage. File Photo by Luis Gandarilas/EPA

April 1 (UPI) -- Bolivia's government, led by President Rodrigo Paz, said it has uncovered an international criminal network responsible for sabotaging and adulterating imported fuel shipments that entered the country over the past five months.

Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo told a news conference Tuesday that at least 150 million liters of gasoline and diesel were tampered with, citing an official investigation that identified a scheme involving fuel theft and contamination with water and oil in Chilean territory.

Authorities said the operation targeted tanker trucks transporting fuel to Bolivia, particularly in northern Chilean cities. In those locations, part of the fuel was allegedly siphoned off and replaced with a mixture of water and oil, according to local broadcaster Unitel.

President Paz said the adulteration began around October.

Investigators believe the network operated mainly in Chile, with additional links and operational hubs in Paraguay and Argentina. The direct economic loss to the Bolivian state is estimated at $150 million, excluding indirect costs linked to transport disruptions.

Consumers also have felt the impact. More than 10,000 vehicle owners, including long-distance transport operators and private drivers, have reported severe engine damage.

"We are facing an attack against the assets of Bolivian families," Paz said, adding that the government will pursue legal mechanisms to compensate those affected, according to local newspaper El Deber.

Bolivia's landlocked status makes transporting fuel from Chile critical to its energy supply chain. The country relies on Chilean ports such as Arica, Iquique and Mejillones to receive international shipments of crude oil and refined products.

After a virtual meeting Tuesday, Paz and Chilean President José Antonio Kast agreed on a joint roadmap to dismantle the transnational organized crime network behind the fuel adulteration, according to Bolivia's state-run broadcaster BTV.

As an immediate response, Bolivia announced tighter controls at facilities operated by state energy company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos, known as YPFB, and the National Hydrocarbons Agency. Authorities will implement mandatory laboratory testing at production sites and border checkpoints.

Civil society groups have called for accountability as the investigation continues, urging authorities to prosecute those responsible abroad and to address potential internal failures that allowed the sabotage to go undetected for months.

The crisis comes as Bolivia faces a severe fuel supply shortage. After a structural decline in domestic hydrocarbon production, which fell about 44% between 2014 and 2024, the country shifted from a net exporter to a heavily import-dependent market. Bolivia now imports about 90% of the diesel and 50% of the gasoline it consumes.

The situation has worsened since 2023 due to a shortage of foreign currency, particularly U.S. dollars, complicating payments to international suppliers and contributing to intermittent shortages and partial disruptions in transport and productive sectors.