Bolivia 2003 - 2023, two decades of infamy

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 01/10/2023

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At the beginning of September, specifically, the second week, I had the opportunity to meet with some businessmen from my native Cochabamba. We talked about several topics, but there was one that motivated us to meditate on the painful situation in Bolivia, I am referring to the process of institutional, political, social and economic destruction that our country experienced in the last twenty years.

How has a nation that started the 21st century with democracy, freedom and a future become a simple satellite of Castro-Chavism?

At the beginning of the 90s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of the USSR left all the agitators, gang members and militiamen of the Spanish-American left without speech or flags, using their own words, they had been left without a revolutionary subject.

However, that would not stop them, much less make them meditate on the obtuseness of their ideas, but rather they would look for a way to remain current in public opinion, which for them is synonymous with generating fear and committing crimes.

In the particular case of Bolivia, the instruments of conspiracy would no longer be the guerrilla forces, like those used by Che Guevara's serial killer, but something much more subtle, but just as evil, the NGOs.

Bruno Fornillo, one of the many sycophants of the coca grower Morales, recounts how in the 90s the Bolivian left reorganized itself around a pile of NGOs, more than 400. Their central task was to make public opinion and the press have sympathy for Evo Morales. and their coca gangs. It is worth saying that everything was about building the new image of 21st Century Socialism around an illiterate and violent coca leader, that of the "indigenous" who led the humble and aboriginal Bolivians.

In fact, what they called the "revolutionary process of Bolivia" is, simply, the sum of a lot of criminal and terrorist acts, ranging from the destruction of public property to the murder of police and army personnel. Crimes that had the support of Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence and the dollars of the large South American drug trafficking cartels, for example, the FARC.

In other words, the NGOs had the ability to add ideological content to the fight against drug trafficking to turn it into a new version of the class struggle, or in the particular case of our country, into an ethnic struggle (whites). versus indigenous).

It happens that we did not understand that 21st Century Socialism is the facade that they have used to present as politics what is, simply, a structure of transnational crime, although 20th Century Socialism was exactly the same. In this regard, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, a Bolivian jurist and a great expert on Latin American politics, in his article titled: The dictatorships of socialism of the 21st century have no people, no economy, no narrative, and no options, states the following:

Socialism of the 21st century is the repetition of totalitarian communism defeated by history with the disappearance of the Soviet Union (1990-91). It is the search for justification for organized crime from Cuba to hold indefinite power with impunity, populist discourse, anti-imperialism and fight against poverty, while doing the opposite. The Cuban dictatorship has turned communist Castroism of the 20th century into socialism of the 21st century, more of the same, just organized crime.

For us, ordinary Bolivians, the matter became a serious problem, because not only were we being trapped by the hands of an ignorant person, but also of a ruffian without the slightest scruples. A criminal who was not only going to manufacture misery, as shown by the economic data, but also subject the country to the clutches of Castro-Chavismo.

In conclusion, today, twenty years after the 2003 coup d'état, Evo and his bandits have raffled off the gas rent; They destroyed the economy, to the point that the country has had ten continuous years of fiscal deficit; they turned Bolivia into a narco-state; They reduced Bolivian nationality to a synonym for drug traffickers; finally, they filled Bolivian prisons with political prisoners. There are two decades of infamy.

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