Arce’s absent ‘leadership’ | ‘Liderazgo’ ausente en luchin

Editorial, El Dia:

Very aloof

Luis Arce appears very comfortable, almost aloof. He doesn’t even mention the catastrophic crisis in the country. It seems he doesn’t notice the long lines to get fuel. Perhaps he considers it normal. No one knows.

He waited more than 20 days to react to the blockades by the coca-grower Morales, who is also very calm, even though political analysts say he is cornered and about to be sent to prison.

According to Arce himself and the authorities who have spoken on the matter, the blame for the catastrophic situation lies with the blockades of the pedophile. When the routes were closed, they claimed that thousands of tanker trucks were waiting to pass with fuel to supply the cities and the countryside, but after a week of the blockades being lifted, he’s asking for another ten days to normalize supply. “It doesn’t make sense,” the citizen of Orinoca would say.

The agricultural producers are not joking or exaggerating. Without diesel, without planting, without harvest, there will be no food. We’ve already seen clearly what happened recently: in the first week of the blockades, several cities in the country ran out of supplies, prices skyrocketed, and people suffered anxieties. This situation could become indefinite if urgent measures are not taken. Agriculture doesn’t wait; there’s a critical window to plant. Things cannot be delayed; delay creates a vicious circle, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Despite all this, Luis Arce keeps the agricultural leaders waiting. He asks permission from his bosses, the political mafias that write his script, to meet with the productive sectors. He demands they go to La Paz and then makes them wait a week to address their demands, which don’t need any audience or meeting. The request is simple: if action is not taken immediately, famine will stop being a problem for Africans and Cubans and will permanently settle in Bolivia.

But Arce doesn’t seem moved by this reality. He’s more concerned with his political agenda, continuing to manipulate the justice system, nullifying the judicial elections, organizing spectacles to get applause, creating scandals in Congress, and attending absurd meetings, as he recently did, amidst the suffering of the Bolivian people.

Each minute that passes, the crisis deepens, leading to rising prices, which means more poverty, a drop in production, and job losses. The country has been blocked for three years, not only due to permanent roadblocks but also because of the thousands of trucks loaded with goods that cannot circulate, millions of tons of products that cannot reach their destination, buses that are halted, children who cannot go to school, businesses that close. Perhaps Arce has an ace up his sleeve, a magic wand from which solutions will spring. We’re waiting for them.

Luis Arce still hasn’t reacted to the fuel crisis in Bolivia, while the country faces shortages and an agricultural blockade. Despite the urgency to take immediate action, Arce prioritizes his political agenda, worsening a situation that threatens to deepen poverty and economic collapse.

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