Bolivian writer, diplomat and politician.
16 October 2021
Linera’s Fierce Resentment
On top of all this mess that we’ve had with the Wiphala and with the cursed laws, as well as with some folk speeches by President Arce, we have suddenly come across some statements by former Vice-President García Linera, which exude concentrated hatred, but above all, gives us the right measure of his twisted Marxist-populist mentality that has caused so much damage to the country.
He has publicly stated that (my apologies) he screwed up Santa Cruz businessmen using political and not economic reasons. He stated that there was no need to nationalize agriculture because cutting the production chain weakened them; that is what the MAS did with soy and that soy “was never a problem again.” And how did he do it? We already knew it in Santa Cruz. He said that, resorting to blackmail, because if the soy producers bother you, “you suspend exports” because the Government has the monopoly of deciding who exports or not. He is trying to do the same with beef, which has hardly opened important markets. Isn’t that a tremendous scoundrel and a warning?
Well, this venerated intellectual of the Latin American left (only comparable to López Obrador) has exposed in his interview, full of insolence, that “where the power of the (business) veto is too strong, you simply bankrupt it: you go in and build a State-owned company.” Easy! In other words, you do what the MAS did: create inefficient and unprofitable State-owned companies that ate up a good part of the gas profits and left us poor.
How much has Linera’s social resentment cost Santa Cruz and Bolivia? According to an expert in numbers like José Luis Parada, with the restrictions on soy exports, around 380 million dollars were lost annually, that is, about 4,000 million dollars from 2008 to 2018. And all this happened with the businessmen sitting solicitously at the table with the Vice-President, skilled with flattery, with deliberately tangled dialectics, and with an easy but sinister smile. Let it not happen again, because it is very dangerous and it costs money to make the wrong friends.
Source: http://www.cabildeodigital.com/2021/10/el-feroz-resentimiento-de-linera.html
