Bolivian opposition politicians met in Washington to outline strategies for the 2025 presidential elections, in which they worried about finding an “outsider” candidate.
Days ago, several Bolivian tiktokers and influencers converged on the United States Embassy in La Paz to get political training with a view to future political projects, considered the analysts consulted.
From the Government of Luis Arce They unmasked the move, which was partly supported and partly denied by representatives of Bolivia’s traditional parties, an international news outlet published this Tuesday.
The ruling MAS has not yet defined a candidate for the next presidential elections, since it is divided, a factor that favors the appetites of the oppositionaccording to analysts.
This difference permeated the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, where the ruling party lost its majority due to internal differences, points out the Sputnik News site.
He emphasizes that The Bolivian population was not surprised by the news of the opposition conclave in the North American country, since that traditionally happened: local politics was dictated by the North American power.
This is how Emilio Rodas analyzed it, according to whom the recent meeting in the USA It was coordinated by seasoned politicians such as Ronald MacLean, 75 years old, who was mayor of La Paz and minister for Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN), a party founded by General Hugo Banzer Suárez, dictator between 1971 and 1978, then president elected by popular vote. between 1997 until 2001.
The businessman Samuel Doria Medina also participated, without representation in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly.
There were representatives of Citizen Community (CC), party led by former president Carlos Mesa (2003-2005), who was vice president of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.
He took over after Sanchez de Lozada fled to the United States in 2003, as a corollary of the so-called Gas War, which left 67 people murdered by the Armed Forces and the Police, with its epicenter in the city of El Alto.
It was also the legislator for Santa Cruz de la Sierra de Creos Zvonko Matkovic, representing Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, imprisoned in the Chonchocoro prison awaiting trial for his actions in the 2019 coup.
Rhodeswho was vice minister of the Interior Regime in the governments of Evo Morales and Arce, continued his analysis: “At the same time that there is an internal crisis in the MAS, the right is in a historic political crisis.”
For the analyst Gabriel Villalba, those who met in the United States “are characters who represent the old colonial Bolivia.” “Without a doubt, we have traditional political actors, subordinated to North American geopolitical interests. It is preponderant for the United States to control the lithium triangle [conformados por Chile, la Argentina y Bolivia] and the strategic resources of South America,” he stated.
He argued that For the Government of Joe Biden “it is essential to have a lackey president, servile to its imperialist interests in the region.”
“Such is the role played by the Argentine president Javier Milei, or Dina Boluarte in Peru, or Daniel Noboa in Ecuador,” he assured.
In relation to the search for political figures on social networks, “The political operation” in this field “requires little investment, because with a single character you can reach a wide audience.”
“They have already shown us in Argentina that you don’t need much structure, if you have a figure and you take advantage of it. Milei surpassed almost century-old structures, as is the case of Peronism,” Rhodes stressed.
