The MAS Government is the Problem | El gobierno masista es el problema

By Ovidio Roca, El Dia:

And now, who can help us? I, the Chapulín Colorado!, Evo and Lucho version.

If we believe that the centralist government will give us the solution, let’s remember Ronald Reagan: “The government is not the solution to our problem; the government is the problem.”

In reality, the MAS government is not just the problem; it is a monumental disaster and a massive calamity.

We must understand that if we keep doing the same thing, applying the populist recipe and expecting everything to change magically, for the economy to grow and dollars to fall from the sky, we are making a grave mistake.

The situation is complicated: everyone is asking for gasoline and dollars. The MAS supporters, as Juanita Ancieta of the Bartolinas told us, have their solution: “Vote for brother Evo, who will bring printing presses and print dollars in the Chapare.”

The problem is that we don’t understand that the dollar and any currency are obtained in exchange for exports. And to produce and export, we need security and other policies: economic and market freedom, private property, and not state dirigisme.

Entrepreneurs and democrats demand that the bureaucratic state and public spending be reduced, that laws guaranteeing legal security be enacted, that the investment climate be improved, and that authorities, public servants, judges, and prosecutors be chosen based on ethics and meritocracy.

Bolivia cannot continue to depend solely on the export of raw materials. It is essential to promote industrialization, agriculture, support small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote sectors such as tourism and technology, which can generate employment and reduce dependence on traditional exports.

Likewise, it is crucial for the MAS supporters to stop supporting and financing the interculturals who invade lands, attack private property, and discourage production. Biotechnology should be legalized and promoted, obstacles to the production and export of agricultural products should be eliminated, and diesel imports should be liberalized. Furthermore, it is necessary to abandon the policy of waste, mismanagement, and state hyperinflation, which consumes the wealth of Bolivians, money that should be producing goods and services and generating wealth but is instead financing an immense unproductive and parasitic bureaucracy.

The government, with its policies and regulations, is burdening the population, taking away their resources, hope, and the will to change towards a prosperous economy and society. They keep them submissive and overwhelmed by offering temporary jobs and bonuses.

The MAS supporters are cunning and know how to do business in the countryside with coca and drug trafficking, in addition to taking over the state apparatus to give jobs to their subjects and use the public force to intimidate and block citizens.

What they do well is spend and go into debt. They spent the gas reserves and did not replenish new wells. They consumed the gold and dollar reserves of the Central Bank. The International Reserves, which in 2013 were 14,430 million dollars, by the end of 2023 fell to 1,709 million, according to the BCB.

We already have 13 billion dollars of external debt, and it keeps growing. This, after having squandered nearly 14 billion dollars of international reserves in gold and currency.

Since they are no longer granted loans, they have taken over the retirees’ savings. They dip into the Gestora, the MAS petty cash, and lend themselves the savers’ contributions, leaving workers and retirees in uncertainty.

Bolivia and the populist countries in the region, by applying this model, are on their way to falling into the same misery as Cuba and Venezuela.

These countries are two mirrors that clearly reflect the fate that awaits us in the hands of populism. They applied the Castro-Chavista model, and their population, faced with the disaster, fled desperately towards capitalism, seeking to survive.

As Einstein said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.”

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