August 6, 2024, 4:00 AM
August 6, 2024, 4:00 AM
He productive sector of the country Overall, he hopes that the President’s speech, Luis Arcecommemorating the 199 years of Bolivia’s independence be of unity, that it gives signals of concrete solutions and that the data provided is transparent.
In a context where the persistent diesel shortage and an uncontrolled rise in the value of the parallel dollar, They put the Government in a difficult position, the private sector (agriculture, entrepreneurs, businessmen and exporters) do not lose hope that on August 6, the head of State will give signs of structural changes.
So, Pablo Camacho, President of the National Chamber of Industry (CNI), said that in his message Arce has the great opportunity to take concrete measures that lead to actions and policies that provide security and the possibility of investing in concrete actions to solve issues such as the lack of dollars and fuel supply, among others.
“As Industrialists, we want to hear an openness to dialogue I reiterate that with concrete decisions to jointly address the situation, the industrial sector must be incorporated into the private business sector in a role of greater participation in the reactivation of the economy,” said the representative of the national industry.
From the Federation of Private Entrepreneurs of Santa Cruz, they specified what businessmen and citizens want to hear in the presidential speech “a message of peace, without revenge and with a concrete proposal to be able to get out of the current economic crisis.”
The institution stated that the president must urgently carry out a national call where all “businessmen and authorities work urgently in a plan to get out of the current monetary policy crisis and the chronic problem of fuel shortages, particularly diesel.”
Juan Carlos Vargassecretary of the National Confederation of Micro and Small Enterprises (Conamype), indicated that what Bolivians expect is that the President says what the contingency plan will be to be able to face this economic crisis.
“We want him to tell us this is the way. Let him argue his proposals, for some reason he has 18 ministers who should be working in that urgent exit,” Vargas stressed.
For its partClaudia Pacheco, President of the College of Economists of Santa Cruz, said she hopes that the President show the real figures of the Bolivian economy and explain why there is so much crisis in the different sectors of the population.
“Let him assume that the economic model, which is based on public spendingit no longer works because obviously that public spending exceeds our income,” said Pacheco.
The Economist Jaime Dunn He indicated that he hopes that the Government “does not distract” with figures showing that things are better than in the time of Evo Morales or previous governments, and focus on issues that concern the Bolivian population.
“The shortage of dollars and fuel, but not by blaming someone for this shortage, but by making a diagnosis how we got there, because the problem is not the lack of dollars or the lack of diesel, the problem is the cause of the lack of fuel and foreign currency,” said Dunn.
For his part, the general manager of the Bolivian Institute of International Trade (IBCE), Gary Rodriguez, He said that since President Arce is an economist, he would like to hear from him a critical and non-ideologized diagnosis.
“The great challenge of resolving the shortage of dollars and the price increase that is resulting from it, as urgent issues; in addition, a fraternal call to the business community and its institutions to see how to quickly increase the exportsallow the full use of biotechnology, work on opening markets, combat smuggling, and provide a fundamental solution to fuel supply to guarantee productive, commercial and service activity, knowing that economic stability and decent jobs in the country depend on all of this,” said Rodríguez.
