“Bolivia needs to allow the private sector to import and supply consumers” | “Bolivia necesita permitir que el sector privado importe y abastezca a los consumidores”

By Álvaro Rosales, Unitel:

Chamber of Commerce:

The president of the CNC also raised other proposals to the Rodrigo Paz administration, such as the need to make transparent the real situation of fuel imports, payments made, and available volumes

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[Photo: APG] / Photo taken in La Paz, where lines continue to persist

The president of the National Chamber of Commerce (CNC), Eduardo Olivo, stated that Bolivia must allow the private sector to import fuels as a structural measure to confront the supply failures that have been occurring for several days across the national territory.

“Bolivia needs to allow the private sector to import and supply consumers directly,” the executive said in a video released this Friday, considering that the liberalization of fuel imports must be assumed as “an unavoidable structural decision.”

Olivo referred to this issue in a context in which lines are multiplying in search of timely supply, a matter that has different sectors of the national productive apparatus uneasy as they watch the same problems that were recorded during the administration of Luis Arce begin to reappear, among them the reactivation of the diesel black market.

For the CNC leader, the current “closed scheme” has proven to be inefficient, and opening the market does not respond to an ideological position but rather to a national economic urgency, thus asking the authorities to make more decisions instead of giving explanations.

Likewise, he considered that the supply problem is not an isolated event, but the result of the lack of foresight, planning, and execution of timely measures.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Hydrocarbons, Marcelo Blanco, said that they are in continuous operation to restore supply, adding that there is active distribution, monitoring in the field, and permanent control to guarantee that fuel reaches where it has to go.

For his part, the president of YPFB, Sebastián Daroca, reported that during the day 2 million liters of diesel were dispatched from Senkata to La Paz and El Alto, and also stated that a significant volume of fuel is being imported through April 28, with more than 1,200 tanker trucks in transit.

The CNC complemented its proposal with the need for an immediate, effective, and public emergency plan aimed at guaranteeing fuel for the productive sectors, prioritizing the food chain, transportation, and the activities that sustain national supply.

“The country has the right to know the real situation of fuel imports, payments made, available volumes, and the certainty of supply in the coming weeks and months,” Olivo added in his statement, emphasizing that each day of paralysis generates losses exceeding 54 million dollars due to delays in the flow of international cargo.

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