Ideas? No, thank you | ¿Ideas? No, gracias

Humberto Vacaflor Ganam, El Diario:

With a furrowed brow and the attitude of a jealous public servant, the Government announced that it has managed to identify and arrest an individual who was selling gasoline at Bs 10 per liter.

Meanwhile, the populace, distressed by the situation, has launched into a veritable brainstorming session, rightly assuming that the Government does not have any.

Entrepreneurs have identified seven obstacles blocking the economy in addition to the narco-militants from Chapare who are blocking the roads.

And the IBCE (Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade) proposes five ways to end this ice age in finance, and everyone is contributing ideas.

Entrepreneurs propose that the penal code be modified so that anyone committing the crime of blocking a road is imprisoned for seven years.

But the Government is focused on something else. It has other priorities. Besides, roadblocks are in the DNA of the MAS (Movement for Socialism), and condemning them would be like cursing their own mother.

The government’s priorities have nothing to do with the economic crisis or the banking freeze applied to savers with foreign currency.

Their priorities are few: Number one, ensuring that the electoral fraud scheme remains intact, taking for granted (this is priority number two) that the coca grower is disqualified for 2025. That’s it.

The country’s economic situation, and the country as a whole, matter little to the government, just like the votes that citizens could cast in 2025 with fraud assured.

The coca grower himself has said that if Luis Arce were to become a candidate, he would lose, even if he were a MAS candidate. And that, without fraud, he forgot to say, he himself would lose.

The totalitarian instinct leads the government to arrest a person who, convinced that there is free enterprise in Bolivia, was selling gasoline at Bs 10 per liter.

And it says it is hunting down those who provide dollars to the parallel market, where the exchange rate reached Bs 9 per dollar in recent days.

The government has not yet jailed the merchants who sold chicken meat at a higher price than in December.

With the criteria applied against the gasoline reseller, government officials who buy gasoline abroad at higher prices should be jailed because, according to Carlos Romero’s accusation, they will receive higher commissions. Romero says Arce’s children are involved in these businesses.

  • Ideas, Mr. Government?
  • No, thank you.

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