No more stupidity | No más estupideces

Editorial, El Dia:

Power Arrogance

It’s hard to believe that someone as useless and incompetent as Luis Arce has such a big ego. Not even the most distinguished psychologists could explain how an individual is capable of leading the country into the worst disaster in its history just because he refuses to admit he is wrong, to test his false theories, to try to convince people that reality can be molded to his narrow mind, to prove that he is an expert in economics—probably because some prankster once told him so, just to mock him and observe the absurdities an extremely foolish man can commit.

How’s that holding up?

Even today, with the country paralyzed by the shortage of dollars and fuel, he still dares to claim that he is an excellent administrator and insists on maintaining his economic model, which consists of sustaining thousands of white elephants, believing that such nonsense still gives him a chance to be a candidate and remain in power beyond 2025.

He is so clumsy that, knowing the country was already heading toward a hyperinflationary process similar to the one from 1982-1985 under the UDP government—something he admitted in 2020 when taking office—he continued insisting on the destructive economic model he persists in today, fully aware that it will do nothing but trigger an unprecedented collapse, with apocalyptic characteristics such as shortages, famine, exodus, and chaos.

This is rotten!!

Thankfully, the calls for his resignation and suggestions that he throw in the towel have provoked a desperate reaction, and he has admitted that he is no longer capable of even minimally ensuring the supply of fuel. But he does it halfway when the correct course of action is to fully liberalize fuel importation and trade once and for all. As long as things remain under state control, bureaucracy, corruption, and incompetence will ensure that everything stays the same.

At this stage of the disaster, citizens are resigned and would willingly accept a “gasolinazo,” the suspension of subsidies, as people lose more time queuing at gas stations, waiting for diesel, and the so-called benefit only generates more inflation, as demonstrated by INE’s own data. The most expensive gasoline is the one that isn’t available—we already know this perfectly well, and Arce’s blunders are incredibly costly.

We have been falling until we hit rock bottom

If Arce does not want to go down in history as the worst president ever, if he does not want to risk ending up like Villarroel, if he does not want everything to explode into violence and chaos, he must start doing things right—at least at the end of his term. He must fully liberalize exports to generate foreign currency, improve the investment climate, stop harassing and criminalizing producers, stop stealing at least for these remaining months, and refrain from spending as irresponsibly as he has been.

From a political standpoint, he must not even think about using any maneuver to extend his mandate, suspend elections, or—much worse—order the reinstatement of the cocalero Morales so he can run again. Right now, the country is burning with fury and will not tolerate any of his games. His mission is to stop adding fuel to the fire and to ensure clean elections.

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