Gallardo affirmed that 3.5 million of them are sent and distributed in the Santa Cruz department.

“We are delivering quite significant additional volumes. Of seven million liters that are consumed daily, we are sending nine million liters to cover this deficit in the short term and achieve a normalization or regularization of the market,” he explained.

The minister recalled on national television that in a meeting with the productive and agro-industrial sector of Santa Cruz, the Government promised to guarantee diesel for productive activities.

According to official data on Sunday, 3.5 million liters of diesel were shipped to Santa Cruz to meet the excess demand caused by a shortage due to road blockades over 24 days between October and November, mainly in Cochabamba, in central Bolivia.

This situation affected imports and exports so that the tankers blocked on the road could not reach their destination in time, and this caused a collapse in distribution that was visible in the lines of several blocks of vehicles at the pumps of the country’s leading cities.

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