Who would benefit from the reopening of YPFB?
a long time I see many people (especially ex-officials of YPFB) is screaming for consolidation of YPFB or to fully nationalize the hydrocarbons. If you want the MAS is back in the past 21 years, in the name of the Bolivian people, we should remember how YPFB and state enterprises in general, nearly two decades ago, before the hated law 21060 and the still more "cursed" privatization law: Among other things, the government agreed to pay 27 (yes, twenty-seven) annual salaries of government officials, gave YPFB fuel bonuses equivalent to 400 liters of gasoline per month to its employees and the government payroll to 280 thousand. Evo and his party came to power by proposing basically go back to the powerful state of the early 80's, which was all that led to more than 20,000% inflation and a general strike in the country.
No doubt the good intentions of many "intellectuals" and other great revolutionaries in the country, but we must ask how such a state apparatus financed. Or better yet, how they will explain to voters that we can not return to those times.
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