Cornered: all the factors that surrounded Luis Arce in Bolivia

President Luis Arce he is cornered by the economy, by his political party, by Evo Moralesformer vice-president Álvaro García Linera, because of the possibility of a recall, but above all because of the errors of his government.

He peruvian armystationed at the border, also corners the Arce government by stifling bilateral trade in foodstuffs, but also in semi-finished medicines and gold.

Faced with a shortage of dollars, the government ordered the Central Bank to sell them, but in insufficient quantities there only in the city of La Pazwhich caused a higher price to emerge in the rest of the country, a de facto devaluation after eleven years of fixed exchange rates.

Morales ordered him to explain what the state of the economy is, but, yes, not to lay off any public employees from his schedule, while the high budget deficit forces spending cuts.

The harshest was García Linera, who said that Luis Arce had been nominated as the MAS candidate in the 2020 elections to lead a “transitional” government, which will do what is necessary to have Morales return to the presidency as soon as possible.

the opponent Jose Carlos Sanchez He thinks Arce may be considering the possibility of stepping down to make way for a snap election right now, as Morales wouldn’t want to wait for the 2025 election.

Justice is busy punishing the former president Jeanine Anez, locking up the governor of Santa Cruz and keeping the 130 political prisoners in the ‘coup’ case, prisoners who should be freed now that García Linera revealed that he had proposed to the cocalero not to flee in 2019, but to stay and fight. And that, therefore, it was not a blow that scared them away, but the cocalero’s cowardice.

In the Morales current, it is feared that at any moment popular protests or real opposition will force the elimination of the complex system of election fraud implemented since 2009 by Venezuelan and Cuban experts.

The Venezuelans have artificially inflated the electoral lists and the Cubans have set up the scheme so that the Bolivians living abroad vote in all the elections, without their knowing it.

The indecisions and contradictions committed on the dollar they are so many and so clumsy which raise the suspicion that it is a ruse intended to justify a resignation of Arce to proceed to early elections.

The Central Bank said it would sell dollars “to avoid speculation” from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday, but for now only in La Paz. And it sells for up to $500 per person, once.

Queues of people interested in buying dollars start at 4 a.m., amid crowds, struggles with police and bitter protests when officials announce that the dollars have run out. The government continues to blame the “opinionists” of social networks.

For now, Lack of dollars is the biggest problem for most of Boliviawhere 85% of the economy is made up of informal workers, many of whom are smugglers bringing in goods from neighboring countries.

Importers of industrial inputs must form the same queues as smugglers and cannot request larger quantities.

Teachers took to the streets of the city of La Paz to demand better salaries and, above all, the elimination of political impositions in the educational curriculum.

The deputies of the Arce line suggest that, if the teachers continue the strike, they be replaced by Cuban teachers, as is done with the protesting doctors.

At this time, with serious problems in education and health, in addition to the economy, the only arm of government that functions effectively is that in charge of repression and judicial oppression.

Zulema Alanespresident of the National Association of Journalists, says that at the moment the union is living “worse than in dictatorshipsalluding to military governments that lasted until 1982.

Police and Government Clash Groups Beat Journalists covering demonstrations by teachers, doctors or dollar buyers.

The MAS government violated the Printing Law, which created a judicial jurisdiction for journalists. In all the cases that occurred in the Morales government and later in that of Arce, journalists were victims of ordinary tests.

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