Recognition of the country’s economic problem generates criticism and calls for unity

After Vice President David Choquehuanca himself finally admitted that Bolivia ran out of money and that the approval of credits in the Legislative Assembly is urgent, the main political actors of the country reacted with a series of criticisms and also calls for unity to overcome the economic problem.

“The highest priority should always be to take care of the economy of our people. It was finally admitted that we are not so well off financially. It is a political mistake to believe that this problem is going to be solved by blaming legislators for them to approve debt laws,” said former President Evo Morales on his Twitter account.

He added that the main capital of the financial system is the trust of savers, therefore, in his opinion, “it is urgent to return to the people the security in the economic management of the country with a clear and concerted path.”

“That’s why We suggest a national unity summit to overcome this difficult situation together. All united, the public, private, and productive sectors, together with micro-entrepreneurs, unions, professionals, and social movements from the countryside to the city, we have the capacity to overcome this situation. You have to think about the homeland first, without calculations, ambitions or considerations, “added the MAS leader.

For his part, the businessman and opposition politician, Samuel Doria Medina, considered that the recognition of the economic problem, by Vice President Choquehuanca, is proof of the “misdirection of the Government.”

“Proof of the government’s mistake: that Choquehuanca has admitted what we all see and know and that is the headline of almost all the press. When we should be discussing the measures taken to resolve the crisis!” Dorian Medina said on the same social network.

Meanwhile, former President Jeanine Áñez, imprisoned for the so-called “coup d’état” of 2019, affirmed that the government of the Movimiento Al Socialismo squandered the country’s reserves “on monuments to egomania.”

“One coup after another David Choquehuanca were and are the ones that their governments, with the fled (Evo Morales) and now with Luis Arce, have hit Bolivia, squandering the reserves of the Central Bank and hydrocarbons, spending on monuments to deficit egomania and doubling the state apparatus,” said Áñez through her social networks, which have been managed by her relatives since she was imprisoned.

In recent days, former presidents Jorge Tuto Quiroga and Carlos Mesa also spoke about the country’s economic problem.

Quiroga considered that the “blue” economic model was looting and that it “is over.” Meanwhile, Mesa, in an interview with EL DEBER Radio, indicated that the government of the former “super minister of Economy” ate “the little fat that the Bolivian economy still had left.”