Bolivian liberal movement takes a shared bath for renewal with a view to 2025 | Movimiento liberal boliviano se da baño, compartido, de renovación con miras al 2025

By Fernando Rollano, Free Thinker:

Gathering nearly three hundred adherents and participants who filled the event hall in the western area of the city of Santa Cruz and calling for fifteen intellectuals and guest speakers, representatives of the Bolivian liberal movement organized a few days ago a full agenda day called MEETING FOR FREEDOM, as an initial step to become an intergenerational and interregional political-party alternative within the country’s electoral spectrum.

With the expressed conviction of “selling liberalism to liberate the country,” the economist and assumed liberal Antonio Saravia organized, moderated and spoke at the aforementioned meeting, counterpointing with other voices and interventions that included Enrique Fernández, Emilio Martínez, Fernando Untoja, Branko Marinkovic, Jaime Dunn, Marco Antonio del Río, Mario Foianini, Humberto Vacaflor and Silvia Alemán, among others.

From La Paz, Fernando Untoja described the failed State that has mistreated and spoiled the lives of citizens as “gangrene or terminal cancer,” and generated controversy by claiming liberalism as a form of “creative and necessary selfishness”; while Jaime Dunn called for individual and national empowerment as an articulating hinge to “create an alternative recipe” for popular capitalism and reduce to a minimum the role of the centralist State that takes away individual rights.

From Santa Cruz, clarifying that he was expressing himself on behalf of the people of Santa Cruz and Bolivia, the businessman and former government authority, Branko Marinkovic, pointed out that the crucial battle that is being staged in the political-economic reality of the country is the struggle and core contradiction between freedom and dictatorship, understanding freedom as “a path of opportunities that must be conquered, not merely taken up.”

And from the auditorium, another young voice took the microphone to remind organizers and attendees (among whom was a large delegation of young people who had just arrived by bus from El Alto – La Paz) that, although slavery can become comfortable in the long term and freedom can be announced as extremely uncomfortable in the immediate term, the correct choice should always be a resounding yes to living in freedom.

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