

Bolivian Senatorial Candidate Susana Bejarano Advocates for Dialogue Amid National Crisis
Santa Cruz, Bolivia – Senatorial candidate Susana Bejarano has asserted that Andrónico Rodríguez stands as the sole political figure currently proposing dialogue as a viable solution to Bolivia's ongoing crisis. Speaking on a recent broadcast, Bejarano critically analyzed the country's political climate, stating that it has exacerbated social divisions and fostered widespread distrust. "We have experienced a political approach that has inflamed and deepened the destruction of the social fabric, polarization," Bejarano remarked. She further elaborated on the pervasive lack of confidence, noting, "The polarization has become a method of doing politics, a method of doing politics that has definitively hurt the sensibilities of many people in the country." Bejarano highlighted the consequences of this polarization, including "paralysis in many places" and "enormous distrust, not only distrust among citizens living in the same city, distrust even among regions, distrust of the citizenry with the executive, distrust in the church." She underscored that this accumulation of distrust stems from a damaged social fabric. According to Bejarano, Rodríguez positions dialogue as the central pillar of his political approach. "We cannot emerge from the crisis we are in if we do not think about a great dialogue, in a concertation," she stated. She concluded by emphasizing that a renewed political vision should not simply replace older figures with younger ones or one face with another, but rather focus on genuine solutions through dialogue.

