Stupidity and Pragmatism | Estupidez y Pragmatismo

Editorial, El Dia:

Luis Arce no longer has an economic model, he has no ideology, he has no discourse and, what is worse, he no longer has money, which was what allowed the MAS regime to play at being a socialist, giving away gifts with full hands, promising paradise to the poor and making life impossible for private companies, the balance of which has been disastrous. We are one step away from Cuba, one of the greatest powers in sugar production that now has to resort to imports to sweeten its coffee. If the government does not give a change of course, when we least expect it we will start cooking with firewood if we do not find someone to sell us cheap gas.

The MAS regime has exhausted itself and, like all systems that build utopias based on false premises, dead theories and failed projects, the time has come to face reality and it is a very ugly situation, almost like the one from Argentina who lives attached to the transfusion that the International Monetary Fund constantly gives her.

Arce is desperate for money, but he is more afflicted by continuing in government, winning the elections and that prevents him from resorting to austerity, firing half of the 500,000 public employees that he maintains for electoral reasons, closing the state companies that consume half of the national budget and stop feeding the political mafias that milk millions from the state, as has been evidenced by complaints from some leaders of the so-called social movements.

Tomorrow the hydrocarbons law and other regulations that scare away investment and that have turned Bolivia into one of the most inhospitable places to do business, work honestly and produce under the law. In fact, some spokespersons have already mentioned the modification of the regulations of the oil activity, but the MAS is still very tied to the retrograde script that is passed on from Cuba and that is why Arce continues repeating that he is a socialist and insists on getting involved with Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia and Nicaragua.

They say that there are five kinds of people: the intelligent, the bandits, the defenseless and the stupid. The latter are the worst, because they do evil, they harm others, but they do not obtain any benefit in return, something that happens when the MAS insists on tearing Santa Cruz to shreds, destroying its productive apparatus and getting it to break, a task in which it is bottled up for two decades, without having achieved more than an adversary that is increasingly determined to prevent the dictatorship from being imposed in Bolivia and ending up mired in social and economic disaster.

A few days ago, when the region was facing five blockades at the same time (all promoted by MAS people), a meeting between Arce and businessmen from Santa Cruz was paradoxical and surprising, an event that was made public with two photographs showing smiling faces. Has the time come to stop being stupid and fall back on pragmatism?

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