The former vice president of Bolivia Alvaro García Linera analyzed Javier Milei’s victory in the runoff and considered «It was not another defeat for progressivism«, since the result «breaks many of the pillars of the democratic transition.»
Furthermore, he characterized the Milei phenomenon and inscribed it in the rise of other far-rights in the world, including the coup d’état of Jeanine Anez in his country: «We are not dealing with the right wing of the ’90s, for whom the free market was the highest stage of humanity. Today the extreme right believes that unruly people must be disciplined with sticks«, he maintained in AM750.
Along these lines, the economist pointed out that this sector sees the State and the public as a limit «to the private business of a few families, and that is why they despise it«.»They come to the government to loot it, to dismantle it. In Bolivia they entered public institutions to do business,» Linera noted.
Likewise, the former vice president assured that «they have a visceral hatred of the public» and that they come to «tighten the belts of the poor.» For García Linera, this sector has despotism as a rule of government.
On the other hand, he referred to the campaign Sergio Massa and revealed that for him the 36% that the Minister of Economy achieved in the first round was a big surprise. «I saw people in the subway, in the streets, people who did not have public office or who were not active, but I felt the wolf snort on the back of my neck and I was afraid and there was then a revitalization of civil society«, highlighted in Here, there and everywhere..
In that context, he considered that «it was a heroic fact» that the national government managed to exceed 30% of the votes and was not «overthrown» by a minority percentage, as happened to progressivism in Bolivia during the ’80s.
However, he pointed out that Peronism did not know how to respond to the anxieties of the most neglected people and that, facing the next four years, it must organize a proposal for «social transformation» and maintain unity.
Finally, he referred to the inflation that has been accumulating in the country for decades and explained that money is the «social unifier of modern society and, when that weakens, all the certainties of your life weaken.»
«Inflation is a total economic fact, it binds the entire economy, society, culture and people’s imagination. because money is the great intermediation mechanism that we have with the rest of the world,» he concluded.