Socialism of the 21st century, transnational of lies and crime
By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 14/07/2024
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On June 26, the Bolivian dictatorship staged a farce that they tried to pass off as a coup d'état. It is common knowledge that no one, except the militants of Masismo, believed in the scene of Arce Catacora confronting General Zúñiga, since it was evident that everything was a very low quality theatricalization.
However, with the exception of Argentina, the governments of the region and several others around the world gave their support to "Bolivian Democracy." However, here is a question:
Why does a farce worthy of the genre of absurd cinema have so much echo, but there are not so many repercussions, for example, with the arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of activists and political opponents?
Because the militants of 21st Century Socialism are not exclusively united by their narratives, among them, the propagation of Russian and Chinese propaganda, but must also include a complex network of content generators, governments, politicians, journalists and even personalities, Maradona, to name one case. The operating logic is the same as that of a transnational corporation. Therefore, it should not surprise us that, just like supporting Luis Arce Catacora, attacking Javier Milei and his reforms have been carried out almost simultaneously and even in the same language.
In this regard, in his book: The Pink Galaxy, Sebastián Grundberger states the following:
Already on October 24, shortly after the first round of the presidential elections, the São Paulo Forum celebrated the first place of the Peronist candidate Sergio Massa with the words "Democracy went to the second round." In this way, the democratic convictions of the opposition candidate Javier Milei were implicitly questioned. The Progressive International also warned in a statement published before the second round that there was an "existential threat from Javier Milei to Argentine democracy."
The objective is very clear: Present governments not aligned with them as threats to security, freedom and democracy.
Obviously, such a level of coordination requires something that the common mortals obtain with too much effort: money. Two forms of financing have been identified: a) legal and b) the economy of crime.
Particularly lucrative is access to Europe's development funds. In fact, CLACSO, using the argument of a supposed "historical debt", obtains enormous amounts of money from the Swedish SIDA. For the actors of 21st Century Socialism, this society does not have exclusively pecuniary benefits, but additionally allows them to give themselves an international appearance of legitimacy and respectability that does not correspond to their true identity, that of dangerous thugs.
There is great information about the relationships of Evo Morales, Gustavo Petro, Rafael Correa and Andrés Manuel López Obrador and drug trafficking in their countries. For example, Correa is being investigated for having illegally received money, for his electoral campaign, from the Colombian FARC guerrilla. Equally well known are the involvement of high-ranking Bolivian officials in drug trafficking during the presidential administration of coca grower Morales, Police Colonel Maximiliano Dávila, being the most recent case.
Important studies, for example, Latinobarómetro, indicate that two decades of the hegemony of 21st Century Socialism have caused a significant erosion in regional democracy.
For its part, the Latin American Political Risk Index, in its 2023 version, identifies that organized crime, corruption, democratic disaffection and governability under pressure are factors that do not allow regional economies to recover from the crisis caused by COVID. Even worse, planning a future for new generations.
Does Latin America have hope?
It is something, at this moment, very difficult to affirm.
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