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Hello, this is the Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne.

But first to South America and Bolivia, where an economic crisis is front and centre, as the country heads to the polls this weekend.

Falling natural gas production has crippled the country's ability to earn dollars

and imports are now more expensive,

which is sent inflation soaring to around 25%.

The BBC's James Chambers reports from La Paz.

We've got some people working for you, filling bags.

These presumably go off to your customers, the lunches you make?

Yes, we have healthy catering for people that have health conditions or want me to lose weight.

That's entrepreneur and businesswoman, Alessandra Guglielmi, upstairs in her office.

Alessandra explains the dollar crisis is making it hard to run her business.

Food is crazy. Like imported food, imported raw materials have gone up like three times. So we can't

really maintain our costs. The official exchange rate for the dollar isn't helping Bolivia's

economic woes.

Since 2011, the government has fixed the exchange rate for dollars at 696 Bolivian to one dollar. So that's 14 years at the same rate, regardless of inflation and rising costs.

That's economist Gary Rodriguez, the general manager for the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade.

The problem is that since 2023, there have been fewer dollars in the country,

mainly due to declining natural gas production, which means there are less dollars coming into the country.

The dollar isn't just an exchange rate, it acts as a foreign exchange reserve for the

country. Dollars are crucial for the country's economic stability. People don't just need dollars

to import goods or pay for medical treatments abroad. They are investing their Bilyer Now's in dollars

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