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By Juan Marcelo Gonzáles, Red Uno:

Dunn: “Bolivia needs structural reforms, not just dialogue”

Analyst Jaime Dunn commented on President Rodrigo Paz’s message, stressing that dialogue must be a means for making decisions, not a mechanism for postponing the urgent reforms the country needs.

Foto: Jaime Dunn, analista

Photo: Jaime Dunn, analyst

Analyst Jaime Dunn carried out an analysis of President Rodrigo Paz’s message, delivered this Thursday, April 30, in the framework of May 1. In an interview conducted on Que No Me Pierda (QNMP), he emphasized the need to take advantage of dialogue as an instrument to address the structural reforms that Bolivia urgently needs.

In this sense, Dunn reflected on President Rodrigo Paz’s call for dialogue among the country’s sectors.

“Dialogue is fine if you call it, as I believe the president is doing, to first build, let us say, a kind of legitimacy for the difficult reforms that he has to make.” According to Dunn

Bolivia’s structural crisis

Dunn warned that Bolivia is facing not only an economic crisis, but also an institutional and moral one.

“The problem of Bolivia is structural, not circumstantial,” Dunn affirmed, referring to the problems of corruption, internal sabotage, and the lack of an effective judicial system that have characterized the management of recent years. According to the analyst, the crisis will not be resolved only with patches or temporary measures, but with deep reforms that address the roots of the problem.

Reflection on Bolivia’s future

The analyst concluded that, although dialogue is fundamental, the government must make quick and urgent decisions to resolve the crisis.

“The first decision that the government has to make is whether it is a government that administers crisis or wants to solve the crisis. And why is that so important, because by saying that it is going to solve the crisis, it already has to come to the dialogue with a plan and with a budget,” said the analyst.

In his reading, Dunn highlights the need for the government to make structural decisions and carry out the reforms the country requires. For this, dialogue must be an effective tool that allows tangible solutions to be achieved.

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