by Alejandro Saravia
Part of Latin American immigration abroad, one that follows closely the processes of change such as Bolivia, want to see in the victory of Evo Morales (the Like much of the Canadian media), above all, a left turn.
This is because a victory for the Movement toward Socialism, Bolivia when looking through the eyes of exile - whether political, economic, cultural or sexual, represents a victory over the ghosts of the past, something breaks into the distance that separates us. In Montreal, Madrid and Munich at the end, a Socialist victory as a good tripe known Colombian locro as Argentina, it tastes like a good kebab Peruvian and Bolivian Thimpu appetizing.
to the Canadian media, attach a label Evo Morales' leftist government "is both an oversimplification and a practical necessity. So TV networks such as CTV, Global and TQS not have to pay to investigate and explain to Canadians that the victory of the MAS is primarily the result of a colonial and not just a victory for the left. And it is more green leaf that the Canadian media make a consistent effort to explain that coca is not cocaine, what America seeks to eradicate the arrogance of his plan "Dignity", supported by the Office of Drug United Nations and Crime, is a potent symbol of cultural identity of indigenous people, the majority in Bolivia. While France congratulates the winner of the Bolivian elections and Chirac received in Paris Evo Morales, The Canadian Press also has asked Ottawa to explain the suspicious silence before a new democratically elected Bolivian government.
Evo Morales's victory is a victory for socialist papers or traditional orthodoxy of the Bolivian left. The history of this political formation, the Socialist Party 1, founded by Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz succeeded, at his peak, about 100,000 votes in 1980 elections. The effort was noble, but the votes were insufficient. This left the field open for decades, this alleged left called MIR, as servile as looters. Bolivians State fell into the hands of wizards 21060 and double counting as MNR, obsequious Match with Washington, such as DNA banzerista kleptocracy, which is now called the acronym which can and wisdom became the walls of the country of "We" to "steal."
MAS was originally called Movement Towards Socialism - Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP). This organization arose in the context of Land and Territory First Congress held in Santa Cruz in 1995 with the participation of the Central Union of Rural Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), the Central Association of Peasants of Bolivia (CSCB), the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Bolivia ( CIDOB), the National Federation of Peasant Women of Bolivia - Bartolina Sisa (FNMCB-BS) and other organizations. (Shirley Orozco published a brief history of MAS in the Barataria Review, March 2005).
Creole elites in 1825, taking the cannon fodder of Zambos, mulattos, mestizos and Indians expelled to Spain in Upper Peru and Bolivia established. But for 180 years the colonial structure was intact, this time to service the capital cities and power sectors. For the indigenous population change was not greater. Racism became state policy, and they remained mitayos, pongos and repeat. O mineritos tunnel of dark days and nights of tragedy, or builders, and Maiden aparapitas in bed. Its forms of cultural self-representation, including indigenous languages, were not-or are-valued by the official culture. At best, there are processes of cultural appropriation.
Given the challenges and the huge level of expectation to which the MAS has to answer, perhaps the label "left" end up stifling the enormous suction of the Bolivian people have a Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the People that is inclusive, pragmatic and flexible. Evo Morales may be a mirage as it was Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador. Perhaps the most accomplished left itself devoured by Bolivian indigenous millenarianism or that he believes it was all bread and roses when all were Indians and mestizos or whites had not (which are also bolivianos) and propose that we must return to the past. Or maybe it's their own disorganization which ends the game winner in the last election. No shortage of external enemies. The first are the ayatollahs of the market in the White House. Is the Pentagon and its military campaigns carried out black propaganda and disinformation. Evo is against many of the media in Bolivia. We follow the lluncus made in Bolivia, that part of the corporate sector with so-called conservative elites in Bolivia, are subservient to outside to inside arrogant, and that no funds may be shared or divided State embassies ministries or share power. But whatever the fate of this election that led to the Government, who are abroad with caring eyes what is happening in Bolivia, would do well to explain that when the indigenous majority reaches, organized into unions, to win democratically State administration institutions, this means, with all its flats, a colonial victory. And while forced to wear glasses who left to look to Bolivia not to give up but to reinvent them.
