“We must be united and ready to defend what they want to take from us with threats and various types of attacks against the process of change,” the headline read.
Navia’s speech at the conclusion of the workshop on nationalization and industrialization in Bolivia was preceded by an audiovisual presentation with explanations by the head of the United States Southern Command, Laura Richardson, who described the riches of Latin America and the Caribbean as a national security matter of the northern power.
Navia noted that in another similar intervention, the military chief repeated the verb “we have” to refer to the Lithium Triangle (Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile) and other continent resources that the rulers of the United States consider their ” backyard”.
In statements to Prensa Latina, the minister explained that this workshop, which included a conference by the head of Hydrocarbons, Franklin Molina, involved a special intervention by the executive secretary of the Bolivian Workers’ Federation, Juan Carlos Huarachi, and telegraphed to all departments , It provided an overall economic information: the lithium question and its industrialization.
“There is much speculation about President Lucho Arce’s policy of industrializing to replace imports, he said, and even more so when it comes to this resource targeted by imperialism, which sees us as its backyard.”
Navia insisted that it is important to inform social movement leaders so that they have reliable, real information and can disseminate it to grassroots groups.
He believes that this is the best way to prepare them so that they can counteract the false news and biased opinions that appear on the subject in some media and social networks.
He deplored the fact that there were people serving what he called “the empire” against the industrialization process carried out by the national government.
He recalled that there had been strikes and deadlocks in the Potosí department demanding approval of a lithium law not yet socialized and that the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (Parliament) had to debate.
“At the same time, the attacks on the national economy appear to be part of a policy aimed at destabilizing the Bolivian government with rumors of foreign exchange shortages, generating popular distrust, and the actions of foreign risk assessment agencies downplaying the risk Confidence in Bolivia’s ability to repay its external debt,” the minister concluded.
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