April 11, 2023, 23:29 PM
April 11, 2023, 23:29 PM
The government seeks that the meetings with the private businessmen of Bolivia conclude in tangible and useful agreementsbecause in the time of former President Evo Morales these meetings concluded in technical tables that did not reach agreements and were diluted over time, as President Luis Arce recalled, in the interview he offered on Tuesday night.
“As Minister of Economy, I have participated in several meetings with President Evo, at the time, the work was done with the Confederation of Private Entrepreneurs, but never came to anythingand I also told them: ‘I don’t agree with that’ and they agreed that They do not share that type of setting up work tables and that nothing is achieved. ANDn our Government, with the Confederation tWe have to land on very specific issues”, said the president in an interview with a TV channel on Tuesday night.
The government and private entrepreneurs they had their first meeting after two years of Arce management and in that meeting they received an explanation of the economic plan that the Executive has and the identification of the topics of shared interest and need to implement a work plan that is built between both parties.
Arce recalled that in that meeting explained to them the plan of the basic chemistry plant that the Government intends to announce in the coming days and in which Bolivian businessmen can participate.
“We have already discussed the supreme decree with the Cabinet, there are many millions of Bolivians who are investing in this project and this will represent a qualitative leap, I have discussed with the private sector, they know exactly everything related to the industry, the industrialists know that we should have done this many years ago as a country, because that will free us from imports of many inputs that today we are importing”, said the Head of State.
And added that there is interest from businessmen to work together in this plant that the president did not advance where it will rise and what products it will offer. Arce said that those who see that gas is the only path for the Bolivian economy are wrong and that the industrialization of other products is already underway, such as lithium.
On this subject, he stated that only Mexico and Bolivia have the production of this mineral in the hands of the Statewhile in Chile and Argentina the investment is in private hands and he reiterated his thesis of creating an “OPEC for lithium”, in direct allusion to the oil-exporting countries united around that organization and warned that Bolivia cannot miss this opportunity to enter the market.
“If Bolivia does not take advantage of these moments, I do not know if we will have more opportunities to use that lithiumGiven that science and technology in the world are advancing by leaps and bounds and there is an urgent need on the planet to transform, change the energy matrices and take everything that is hydrocarbons to another type of renewable energy and to move, therefore, from gasoline, from diesel, to electric vehicles,” said Arce.
He affirmed that for the moment Bolivia is going at an adequate speed and assured that the Government guarantees that the country participates in the entire production chain of lithium, from its exploitation, transformation and commercialization.
