Hayek was right, ruffians thrive on tyrannies.
By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 21/08/2023
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Planes with Bolivian license plates seized with drug shipments in neighboring countries, high-ranking Bolivian Police officers involved in vehicle theft and drug trafficking, and a public opinion that trusts more in the words of the world's most wanted drug trafficker (Sebastián Marset ) that in those of the national government are the most visible characteristics of the degree of decomposition and putrefaction reached by that project called: Plurinational State of Bolivia.
However, these repulsive features are not a deviation from a noble cause, but direct consequences of its application, since the Plurinational State is nothing more than a component of the criminal franchise of the Sao Paulo Forum, also called Socialism of the 21st Century and Castrochavismo. .
It happens that neither alternation in power, less respect for democratic institutions nor individual liberties are compatible with the Plurinational State, since its natural methods are violence and coercion, on some occasions through State terrorism, on others using gangs to generate blood in the streets.
Obviously, all this logistics requires a financial cushion, money that comes from the coffers of drug trafficking. In this regard, Nicolás Márquez, in his book: The impostor, states the following:
Backed by the always misguided transnational progressivism, Morales knew how to stage a colorful “original” comparsa in his country, consisting of replacing the figure of the Guevara guerrilla fighter with that of the misunderstood cocalero, substituting the Marxist rhetoric for the indigenous one, and exchanging the Moscow accent for the caraqueño. How is this imaginative environmental mutation financed?; Well, substituting the KGB rubles for cocaine narcodollars.
However, this symbiosis would not be beneficial if the big shots did not first secure their "investments" with good agreements with the State. That is the fundamental reason why Bolivia has become the Disneyland of the cartels of the entire region.
Different research centers specialized in transnational crime, but especially the Insight Crime group, affirm that what happened with Sebastián Marset is the most visible example of the degree of penetration that the cartels have in the fragile state institutions, since the drug lord had with Bolivian documentation granted by people trusted by Evo Morales, even in his escape he was helped by high-ranking police officers.
In addition, Marset's stay in the Santa Cruz capital also responds to other reasons. Santa Cruz has become the nerve center in the operations of the First Capital Command (PCC). The drug is produced in the Chapare region, then it is collected in Santa Cruz, from where it is smuggled into Brazil or Paraguay to be exported to Europe, Asia and Africa. The National Anti-drug Secretariat of Paraguay (Senad) indicated that Marset led the entire chain, including money laundering in complicity with Paraguayan businessmen.
In the 40's, Friedrich Hayek published a magnificent book entitled: Path of servitude, in chapter 10 he said the following:
Just as the democratic ruler setting out to plan economic life will soon be faced with the choice of assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans, so the totalitarian dictator will soon be faced with the choice between dispensing with ordinary morality or failing. This is the reason why the unscrupulous and the adventurous are more likely to succeed in a society that tends towards totalitarianism, since they are the ones in charge of carrying out all imaginable evil.
It is evident that 21st century socialism or Castrochavismo is the political disguise of transnational crime. It is the facade to commit crimes with impunity and use the mechanisms of the State to cover them up. It is the substitution of politics for violence and terrorism.
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