Rodrigo Paz: New President of Bolivia

He claims to be from a center political view. One of the things makes me not just to agree, but to think that he can be the right president for this complex country is his determination to make the informal economy, of almost 80% into a low tax and friendly state approach to citizens, who were always scared of the state. Bolivia is a large and abandoned country since their major cities like La Paz and Santa Cruz de La Sierra, are far of almost 1000 km from each other with very bad roads, making of them like two different countries and economies.

La Paz is next to the poorest and most desolate Peruvian department of Puno, where the Aymara population live without cultural borders crossing between Peru and Bolivia. Santa Cruz de la Sierra is next but far of Brazil and Paraguay, so it operates independently as an autonomous country. 

But outside of Santa Cruz de la Sierra the streets are impossible and dangerous, and because of how faraway from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans it makes the imports of oil very slowly and expensive, especially using the Chilean port of Arica, and having Bolivia to pay in dollars for it. One Bolivian refinery is located in Cochabamba that doesn’t produce enough supply of fuel and derivatives for the west part of the country and the other two refineries are exclusively for Santa Cruz de la Sierra that uses all the fuels produced; this leaves the rest of the country in the darkness and the need to use animals and humans especially for farming. Tractors are in pictures holding on the imagination of most of the Bolivian hard workers.

Wish you much success Rodrigo Paz!