{"id":42563,"date":"2026-03-31T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:29:10","slug":"bolivia-halts-fuel-imports-amid-smuggling-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42563\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Halts Fuel Imports Amid Smuggling Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In a major move, Bolivia announced the suspension of its gasoline contracts with Vitol and Trafigura due to allegations of smuggling poor quality fuel from Chile.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Minister revealed that 5,000 tanker trucks carrying adulterated fuel entered Bolivia through a smuggling network, leading to public unrest among transport drivers who blame the tainted gasoline for vehicle damages.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivian authorities are working with Chile to investigate the matter, as the scandal exacerbates the nation&#8217;s energy shortage and highlights regional smuggling issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In a major move, Bolivia announced the suspension of its gasoline contracts with Vitol and Trafigura due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[24639,24634,24641,24640,24638,24637,24642,196,24643,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-42563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vitol","8":"tag-adulterated-gasoline","9":"tag-bolivia","10":"tag-energy-shortage","11":"tag-fuel-imports","12":"tag-fuel-quality","13":"tag-fuel-smuggling","14":"tag-gasoline-contracts","15":"tag-trafigura","16":"tag-transport-strikes","17":"tag-vitol"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116326155294052614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}