Journalist and Political Analyst
12 November 2021
License to kill
“It is not just a law… it is a much more serious problem that points to an authoritarian government, determined to impose its will over the national interest and without any predisposition to dialogue. The Government of Luis Arce intends to control society, the economy, and law enforcement agencies.”
Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereyra, in ‘Journalism without Photoshop – MT’.
The bosses of the Bolivian regime, Luis Arce, Evo Morales, David Choquehuanca, and their minions, believe that having obtained 55% of the votes in the October 2020 elections gives them the license to kill democracy.
The Assembly-member of Tarija José Yucra, affirmed that “…if we have to kill, we will do it” (Página Siete Digital 12.X.2021). Or with the deployment of Police, para-police forces, soldiers in the streets, or peasants mobilized by the regime, with excessive use of force as in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in Potosí, in Tarija, with tear gases, with Neptuno anti-riot cars, paid gang members, threatening women, adolescents, and disabled people. The life of a young peasant has already ceased to exist, there are dozens of injured, and more than 120 detainees.
It is the “raw power”, Levi-Strauss would say, to repress road blockades, marches, and multisectoral work stoppages of union members, transporters, cooperative miners, health sector, civic and democratic platforms against laws that only seek, as the opposition Senator says, the total control of society. The peaceful protests are against the National Strategy Law to Fight the Legitimization of Illicit Profits and the Financing of Terrorism, better known as “mother law” and others, plus its bulky annexes that would allow the President to rule through [supreme] decrees. This ‘package’ paves the way for the seizure of goods and properties by the State/Government, discards rules of professional and financial secrecy to a simple complaint without a fiscal order, and can be used in the persecution of political adversaries.
It is domination to ‘equalize’ society downwards and thus lead Bolivia towards socialism “as in Cuba,” Arce’s own words: https://fb.watch/9dLk7wvpeb/.
They were never democrats, that is why Morales violated the Constitution by running for a fourth election in 2019, when in fact the Law only allows two continuous elections, and that is why he also ignored the 2016 Referendum that told him NO. They got on the bandwagon of history using the democratic method, that is, the vote, like so many populists, but they discarded the social condition of democracy, which is political pluralism so that citizens participate in the construction of the destiny of their own society.
The MAS and its leaders have opted for anti-politics from power, not only to dismantle the plural foundations of reality as a synthesis of multiple determinations but in its most radical form: the total concentration of power, in the old Stalinist way: “outside the political sphere,” as Hannah Arendt wrote in the “Origins of Totalitarianism”.
In other words, anti-politics leads to the unreasonableness of violence and brute force. That is, without democratic commitments, without dialogues, without debates, without seeking consensus, without respect for democratic institutions, there is no peaceful coexistence between different people, there is no independence of powers, there isn’t an honest and fair Judicial Power, with transparency and accountability.
The MAS of Luis Arce, of former [President] Morales and his Jacobin former Vice[-President], believe that winning elections gives them the power to despise the Indigenous Peoples of the East and to impose decisions that threaten personal freedoms, and to go against socio-economic identities of life and survival of around 80% of the economically active population. It is informality, most of them without sufficient resources to reproduce their workforce and that of their family.
Members of the MAS abuse their majority and go against the political rights of minorities, turned into disposable, that is why they don’t take them into account in the conformation of chamber directives. They are poisoning democracy because they want a unique [political] party and monolithic thinking, to the point that they encourage political turncoats who go from the opposition to the ruling party in Parliament without respecting the regulations or minorities.
We must “steal their souls,” the former Vice-President García Linera must be repeating, through the judicialization of politics, the criminalization of the opposition, and the generation of a Leninist-style press and propaganda structure. They make use of the selective use of political cruelty that they apply mercilessly to former President Jeanine Añez, through an invented coup d’État. The regime has 52 political prisoners, an unknown number of people persecuted, and more than 1,200 former exiles, plus the new ones. It is the “revenge” of the populist coca grower Morales.
Researchers studying the tentacles of the First Capital Command of São Paulo, Brazil, qualify Bolivia as a sanctuary for Narcosur (drug trafficking in the south), in addition to being a transit country for cocaine from Peru and Colombia to Brazil and Europe. One of the reasons for this illegal collusion, according to the investigations, is that drug traffickers have protection from the police and the military, given the high levels of corruption in Bolivia. According to the Corruption Perception Index for 2020, Bolivia obtains only 31 points out of 100, the same as Mexico, surpassed by Venezuela (17), Haiti (18), and Nicaragua (22).
The MAS and its followers are stealing the present and the future of Bolivian society, which we always want with freedom. Not even with 55% of votes are they licensed to kill democracy.
Source: http://www.cabildeodigital.com/2021/11/licencia-para-matar.html
