France burns to the rhythm of multiculturalism

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 19/10/2026

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A few years ago, a film producer from my hometown of Cochabamba told me, "France is a cultural powerhouse because the government allocates huge sums of money to artistic producers." Indeed, according to data from the French Ministry of Culture, a combined budget of 17 billion euros (collected from various ministries) was earmarked for culture by 2025. However, my attempt to explain that all government spending causes inflation and higher taxes fell on deaf ears. My grandmother, with her characteristic wisdom, used to say that it's impossible to reason with someone who owes their livelihood to political activism, and in the case of this filmmaker, what a legacy!

But not all that glitters is gold, and as I said at the beginning, sooner or later the bill for state waste comes due. In his article, "France Burning Is the Prelude to a Europe That Can No Longer Pay," Mauricio Ríos García explains:

French public debt reached 119% of GDP by mid-2026, according to INSEE, compared to 21.6% in 1978. The deficit was 5.1% in 2025 and is expected to be 5.4% in 2026, with France under the excessive deficit procedure. Public spending has risen from around 35% of GDP in the 1960s to over 57% today. And it wasn't just Covid; debt was already approaching 98% of GDP in 2019.

A state that spends more than it takes in doesn't just have a fiscal problem, but especially a problem of incentives. Decades of welfare programs have allowed the country to become filled with people who don't seek to integrate, but rather to feed off the public purse. The French are facing an ironic tragedy, since these deficits were generated because their government aided the very people who are now trying to destroy the country: Muslims who have no intention of integrating into French culture. It's a classic case of raising crows that will peck out your eyes.

The current chaos began with a group of students demanding improvements to public education. But the protest was quickly hijacked by highly trained groups of violent individuals who, eureka, are affiliated with more than 50 leftist organizations, including La France Insoumise, the French Communist Party, and the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), as well as various student federations and education sector unions.

Also, during the riots, organizations participated that, along with chants against capitalism, displayed flags with the hammer and sickle, pro-Hamas Palestinian banners and signs against the so-called "imperialist wars", slogans too far removed from the reasons why the protests started last September.

Furthermore, it would be very naive to continue believing that high school students have the logistical capacity to set fire to the Limoges town hall, vandalize public buildings in Marseille, and loot banks in Grenoble. We are facing a classic asymmetric conflict where, on one side, you have highly trained street gangs, and on the other, law enforcement forces that, even with all that violence, have very limited access to riot control techniques and tactics. In this regard, Oliver Pérez, a former captain in the Venezuelan National Police, explained:

In my opinion, the French police are far too lenient and weak in their methods for controlling public order disturbances of this magnitude. Chasing protesters doesn't disperse them; you have to identify the leaders and arrest them, advance as a unit like Vikings with their shield wall, break their formation and surround them; then throw them into the cage like dogs. However, it's most likely that the order from above is to limit the use of violence as much as possible.

Honestly, I think Captain Pérez is absolutely right, since anti-punitiveness is one of the great viruses that has infiltrated the justice and defense systems of the West.

The other great virus is multiculturalism, whose real results are Islamization and the destruction of Western culture. We must protect Latin America as soon as possible from this danger, which, as I warned in my book, *Asymmetric Warfare in the Americas*, is already upon us.

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