The publication believes that most of the presidential candidates provided “the most irrefutable proof of their lack of dignity, and even more serious is the arrogant nature of the person who organized a two-day forum in the United States to discuss the proposals of each party or electoral coalition’s programs.”

It mentions that those invited by the Bolivian-born billionaire, naturalized American citizen and major investor in the world’s largest multinational lithium and copper industrialist (Ausenco), Marcelo Claure, were all members of the right-wing opposition, except for Jorge Tuto Quiroga, who sent his candidate for vice president, Juan Pablo Velazco.

La Epoca criticizes the fact that, “at the conclusion of the forum, dedicated to analysis or diagnosis, the participants, which also included right-wing analysts, reached at the conclusion expected by the host: that the current economic model was a failure and that another viable and necessary one had to be implemented before it was too late (…)” The newspaper reports that, according to those who designed the project known as Bolivia360, the second and third phases involve the dissemination of the forum’s results nationally and internationally and support for the implementation of those results starting in November of this year, after achieving a change in state ownership.

It believes that, in addition to the extremely serious and delicate de facto creation of a supranational entity to transnationalize the Bolivian economy, nothing said or proposed by the invited stakeholders would have changed if the forum had been held in Bolivia instead of Boston.

If so, at least, it would have “showed some modesty and shame on the part of the candidates who rushed to the United States to respond to the invitation of this billionaire interested in accessing lithium and other natural resources without having to go through the annoying process of a bidding process.”

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