Are they still surprised?

Hugo Marcelo Balderrama

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 28/05/2023

Guest columnist.
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In the Bolivian Coba (the language used by the underworld in my country) autero is the word that describes the thief specialized in stealing cars. Hence, the joke about the confusion suffered by Luis Arce Catacora between an austere government and a government of auteros has become popular, since it is already shameful that several cars stolen in Chile are in the hands of Bolivian authorities, even the president himself.

It is true that it is quite aberrational for a president to drive and give away stolen luxury vehicles in Chile, or for the top executive of the National Customs to blame Chileans for "letting themselves be robbed" of the cars, but it is not the only crime committed by the Bolivian dictatorship.

In 2016, in the Special Session of the United Nations Assembly on Drugs, Evo Morales opened up the position of the members of the Sao Paulo Forum regarding drug trafficking, his words were: "The United States uses the fight against drug trafficking as a mechanism of political control, a pretext for imperialism.

The cocalero's verbal incontinence made something clear: The anti-imperialist strategy of the 21st Century Socialism governments has an ideological foundation to defend drug trafficking and responds to the political need to legitimize this crime. Objectively, what Evo called the "nationalization" of the fight against drugs is, in reality, a pretext to legalize drug trafficking. For example, with Morales in government in Bolivia, illegal coca crops have increased from 3,000 to more than 40,000 hectares. Other data shows us that several high-ranking Bolivian police officers, including General René Sanabria, have been an important part of drug cartels.

In the same way, the coca chief has used money from drug trafficking to generate social conflicts in the Peruvian province of Puno, actions that earned him to be investigated by the justice of that country. Regarding Evo's constant meddling in Castillo's failed management, Pedro Yaranga, an expert in security and the fight against drug trafficking, in an interview with the newspaper www.gestion.pe (March 2021), stated the following:

Morales talks a lot about his successful policies in the fight against drug trafficking by expelling the US bases and the DEA, but when he assumed the presidency of Bolivia in 2006 there were 12,000 hectares of coca in his country and when he left power in 2019, there were more than 30,000 hectares. The planes that take the drugs out of Peru come from Bolivia, which has become the warehouse for Peruvian cocaine so that it can then reach Europe and Asia through Brazil.

For his part, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, a Bolivian jurist and one of the thousands of politically persecuted, in an article entitled: Socialism of the 21st Century and drug trafficking in the UN, stated:

The facts show that those who have expelled or forced the withdrawal of the DEA and who also expelled the US ambassadors are Chávez-Maduro in Venezuela and Correa in Ecuador, not just Evo Morales; It has been Correa in Ecuador who has closed and expelled the US from the Manta Base; It has been Correa who has highlighted the protection he granted to the FARC, with the Colombian bombing of Angostura; It is from Venezuela and Cuba where the same FARC, recognized as a guerrilla linked to drug trafficking, have received logistical and political protection, until reaching a negotiating table in Cuba; The action of the FARC in acts of violence such as those of October 2003 in Bolivia against democratic governments giving terrorist support to the current rulers is public and evident.

That Bolivia has become a focus of regional destabilization is undeniable, since objective reality shows us that the Bolivian dictatorship is the geostrategic springboard for exporting organized crime to the neighboring countries of Chile, Peru and Paraguay, the only ones that, together with with a bloody Ecuador, they are still free from the clutches of Castrochavism.

Anyone who still believes that the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) has deviated from its "true" ideological foundations is naive. It is very well documented in various books, for example, The Impostor, authored by Nicolas Márquez, that the Sao Paulo Forum brought together all the left-wing gang members, terrorists, militiamen and hitmen who, especially after the Soviet collapse, had been left without resources or speech. Logically, the fact that all the specimens of Bolivian golfing coexist in the MAS is nothing more than proof of its criminal nature, because as the great Friedrich Hayek would say: «Only the unscrupulous are attracted to the ideas and regimes totalitarians”.


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