Bolivia is beginning a new chapter.
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Bolivia → begin → chapter
For nearly two decades, my country was governed by the Movement Toward Socialism.
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country → govern → Socialism
That period reshaped Bolivia’s economy, institutions, and relationship with the United States.
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period → reshape → States
Today, my government is taking a different direction: rebuilding confidence, strengthening institutions, opening the economy to investment, and creating more room for private enterprise and entrepreneurship.
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government → take → enterprise
When I took office, Bolivia’s Central Bank had only $51 million in reserves.
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Bank → take → reserves
Ten months later, reserves had risen to close to $1.2 billion, and our objective is to continue rebuilding them.
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objective → rise → them
Inflation remains high, fuel shortages have tested our people, and the work ahead is difficult.
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work → remain → people
But the direction is clear: Bolivia is putting its economic house in order.
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Bolivia → put → order
During my campaign, I described our approach as "capitalism for everyone."
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I → describe → everyone
By that I mean access to capital, the ability to invest, the freedom to build businesses, and the opportunity to create jobs and prosperity.
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I → mean → jobs
Ideology does not put food on the table.
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Ideology → put → table
Employment does.
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Employment → do → ?
Production does.
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Production → do → ?
Investment does.
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Investment → do → ?
Economic growth does.
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growth → do → ?
This new economic direction is also creating the basis for a new relationship with the United States.
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direction → create → States
My discussions in New York with Secretary of State Marco Rubio reflected an important change in the relationship between our countries.
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discussions → reflect → countries
Bolivia seeks cooperation with the United States based on mutual respect, economic opportunity, security, investment, and shared interests.
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Bolivia → seek → respect
The Trump administration has placed renewed attention on the Western Hemisphere, including economic strength, security, and cooperation among the nations of the Americas.
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administration → place → Americas
Bolivia intends to engage constructively in that conversation while pursuing its own national interests and rebuilding relationships that can contribute to growth and stability.
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that → intend → growth
But opening our economy does not mean selling our future.
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opening → open → future
Our country possesses extraordinary natural wealth.
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country → possess → wealth
We have natural gas, agricultural capacity, forests, and strategic minerals including lithium, copper, and tin that are increasingly important to the global economy.
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that → have → economy
But we do not want to repeat the history of countries that exported their natural resources for decades while remaining poor.
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that → want → decades
Bolivia cannot simply remove minerals from the ground, ship them abroad, and watch other countries create the technology, manufacturing, jobs, and value from them.
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countries → remove → them
We want long-term partnerships built around employment, training, technology, infrastructure, productivity, and value added in Bolivia.
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We → want → Bolivia
Our message to American and international investors is straightforward: Bolivia welcomes investment, capital, technology, and expertise.
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Bolivia → welcome → investment
We want companies that are prepared to build, produce, employ, train, and grow alongside Bolivian workers and businesses.
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that → want → workers
As I told the United Nations, Bolivia wants to be open to the world with dignity.
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Bolivia → tell → dignity
That means economic growth must also serve the Bolivian people.
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growth → mean → people
A stronger private sector does not mean abandoning social responsibility.
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sector → mean → responsibility
Our objective is to create better jobs, stronger institutions, better education, greater security, and more opportunity.
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objective → create → jobs
We must protect our forests and the Amazon, respect our Indigenous communities, and ensure that development creates tangible benefits for the people who live here.
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who → protect → people
The same principle applies to our young people.
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principle → apply → people
Bolivia’s future will depend on whether they can find purpose, work, and opportunity at home.
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they → depend → home
Investment should help create that future.
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Investment → help → future
Bolivia’s economic direction is therefore based on a simple proposition: work with the United States, our neighbors, and the wider world; welcome productive investment; encourage entrepreneurship; expand private enterprise; and ensure that the wealth created in Bolivia also improves the lives of Bolivians.
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wealth → base → Bolivians
Not everything has been resolved.
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everything → resolve → ?
We are only beginning.
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We → begin → ?
But Bolivia will not remain on its knees.
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Bolivia → remain → knees
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The Aporia
