* Bolivia’s central bank (BCB) has announced that remittances sent to the country in the first four months of 2023 totalled a record high of US$494m. The BCB noted that this was US$6m more than the amount of remittances received in the same period of 2022, and US$46m more than in the same period of 2021. The greatest share of remittances was sent from Spain (30.6%), followed by Chile (25.3%), the US (19.1%), Brazil (6.0%), and Argentina (4.0%).