Bolivia: Calls the world from Santa Cruz | Convoca al mundo desde Santa Cruz

By Raúl Domínguez, El Deber:

President-elect announces international business summit in Santa Cruz ahead of taking office

Presidente electo anuncia encuentro empresarial internacional en Santa Cruz, previo al inicio de su gestión

Rodrigo Paz announced the business summit for November 7 in Santa Cruz / Photo: Fuad Landívar

“We will hold this summit on November 7 to begin a change — a change in the destiny of the nation, an economy for the people and a State, eliminating that obstructive State, that vision of capitalism for everyone and a 50-50 foundation, building the economy and the State from the region,” Rodrigo Paz told the press.

Following the “First National Meeting with the Business and Productive Sector,” held this Saturday in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz announced the holding of a “major summit” between Bolivian and foreign business leaders who will accompany the delegations attending his inauguration, on November 8 in La Paz.

The summit will take place on Friday, November 7 in Santa Cruz, thanks to the willingness of the Santa Cruz business community and the installed capacities the city possesses.

“To announce to you that, through the effort of the national business sector, but with the installed capacities, the organizational capacity in Santa Cruz, on November 7 we will generate a major gathering of the national business community, but also with that international business sector that will come both for the call to this summit and, in turn, for the inauguration on November 8,” Paz explained to the media, accompanied by the country’s main sectoral leaders.

At the same time, the future head of state launched a kind of slogan for the event: “Seizing the opportunity to place Bolivia in the world and bring the world to Bolivia. We are taking the first step (…). To begin a change — a change in the nation’s destiny, a new stage, an economy for the people and a State, eliminating that obstructive State, that vision of capitalism for everyone and a 50-50 foundation, building the economy and the State from the region,” he emphasized.

He also thanked Santa Cruz, the national business organizations, and “those who have faith in the nation,” for launching a new stage of investment — “which means transforming a series of the nation’s needs such as legal security, respect for private property, to grow in plain terms, to produce, to develop the nation,” he stressed.

The first members of his team

Rodrigo Paz also stated that he already has “a great team to present to the country, such as the current economic adviser, José Gabriel Espinoza, and the former vice-presidential candidate of Alianza Unidad, José Luis Lupo. “In other instances they will already be part of the team that will represent the government of Bolivia over the next five years,” he added.

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