In a speech marking the 198th anniversary of Bolivia’s independence, President Luis Arce warned that his nation is in danger from “international ambition” that seeks to take advantage of its pure assets and requires unity to fight this menace.

Arce, talking on the legislative meeting session in Bolivia’s constitutional capital, Sucre, highlighted the nation’s historic battle for independence resulting in its 2009 reformation right into a Plurinational State.

He famous that each one might not favor steps towards useful resource restoration and impartial international coverage.

He warned that Bolivia’s ambitions for what he termed because the “second and remaining independence” are threatened by related points that led to the lack of territory in wars with neighboring international locations within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

“Bolivia right this moment is once more threatened by international ambition for our pure wealth. Divided and confronted amongst Bolivians, we might once more develop into straightforward prey to pursuits alien to the homeland,” Arce mentioned.

Arce additionally defended his authorities’s transfer in direction of blocs just like the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in mild of the “irreversible march in direction of a multipolar world”.

He reiterated a few of his administration’s financial achievements, together with restoration to pre-COVID-19 financial ranges, diminished unemployment and excessive poverty, and managed inflation.

He additionally acknowledged ongoing challenges like corruption, drug trafficking, and violence towards ladies and youngsters and promised to proceed to battle these points.