Bolivian writer, diplomat, and politician.
27 December 2021
The Absurdity of the Spokesman
That the spokesman Richter affirms that the Santa Cruz model is “exhausted” is nameless nonsense. The fact that some crooks in the Santa Cruz Mayor’s Office have stolen many millions has nothing to do with the fact that our development model could be affected by this blatant robbery. Simply, because one thing is the municipal administration and another, very different, the agro-industrial work in the field of entrepreneurs and day laborers, cambas and collas (people from Santa Cruz and La Paz), which produce 70% of the food consumed in Bolivia and that today occupy the highest position in national exports.
Is the Santa Cruz model exhausted by what happened in the Mayor’s Office? Will we have to be sucked into the failed “process of change” then? [Sucked into] by the most corrupt and incapable thing that has been known in Bolivia? We are going to make a recap of the hundreds of million-dollar deals that the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has committed in its 15 years of government and we would never finish. The greatest thieves who have passed through the country have been, without a doubt, the MAS members.
So, what do they want? What is their wish? Undoubtedly they long for a major scandal, which has already occurred. But they not only want those who committed robberies and embezzlements to go to jail, which, obviously, must stand trial and have their guilt punished, but they want to take advantage of the mess to try to get their hands on COTAS, CRE, Saguapac, and all the Santa Cruz cooperatives. The Andean-centrism, a lover of embezzling the State, never looked favorably upon the companies created by Santa Cruz people and now, more than ever, they want to seize them to bury them.
We already know that spokesman Richter is a huckster, but he is dangerous because, with genteel, seemingly innocent gestures, he makes dangerous suggestions that are supported by President Arce. And we see how he takes pleasure from the disunity that appears on the Santa Cruz scene, to accuse lodges, alleged family clans, and in general against the Santa Cruz business community. We are already warning: the Mayor’s Office is the beginning of the drama and then colla (La Paz) prosecutors will arrive, sent to open a gap and for the Plurinational State to take over our cooperatives.
Source: http://www.cabildeodigital.com/2021/12/los-dislates-del-portavoz.html
