Ana María sent this article written last March 29 by Kleber Gia Bustamante for discussion. Good reading.
(any "similar" to the process of Ecuador, is a "mere coincidence")
these days that has been wandering the lands of Bolivia, the length and breadth of this beautiful country, listening and watching the clear testimony of his courageous people manifesting the surface, I dare say I am starting to have a unorthodox view of the current political conditions in the Bolivian nation.
The Bolivian people, after a short successful revolution (1952), mainly workers and peasants came to the role of the People in defeat, because of the betrayal of a government (Paz Estenssoro), a party, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) who preferred to keep the neo-colonial state.
In 1984-85 the Bolivian experience another new track, from the government of Siles Suazo (MNR) and Minister of Economy and Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The result of a terrorist release of "neo-liberal bomb", we all know, thousands of miners and workers on the street. With this double blow to the labor movement sought to dismantle, Indian and popular (especially the COB) for a free implementation of the "consensus" of Washington. Sought to eliminate the role of the Bolivian working class, its political leadership. Undoubtedly it was a blow to the Revolutionary strategy of the Bolivian masses.
In this context of crisis of people's organizations, indigenous people, the urban movements of people take forms discover new strategic elements attached to traditional values, is presented as a new benchmark in the Bolivian political scene.
As we reported some of the protagonists of this great progress 13 (Felipe Quishpe, Felix Cardenas, Lucio Gonzalez, Jaime Solares, etc ..., in separate interviews) was in the Congress of the COB in 1998 when I first Indian Movement was absent from the political leadership of the Bolivian people real. After a long debate, finally the Bolivian working class, their addresses accepted that the Bolivian Revolution was walking on two legs ": the working class and indigenous peoples, Marx and Andean Cosmology, the city and countryside. In this Congress was Evo Morales with other representatives growers, who preferred to withdraw from this new proposal of popular political leadership: The Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia.
This short frame of reference, the Bolivian people in the early years of this new century, managed to complete its restructuring, a great victory if we take into account the adversity of the conditions of domination. The "water war", the "gas war" express this process as well, the latest developments: MAS, Evo Morales-Garcia Linera electoral victory. If they are regarded in this context more lose objectivity historical subjectivities to undergo capricious.
These facts have their particular importance, but by no means absolute. The experience of 1952 that was a real military victory and political insurrection, will be a traumatic experience for the rank and file, Indian and peasant an unpalatable truth: the revolution betrayed. Also an "election victory" to another level and greater vulnerability could be full of "surprises" and "contradictions".
After meeting the findings of several Indian leaders, workers and popular, several Bolivian departments, we headed into the bowels that great social base in the countryside and cities. Without exaggeration, perhaps the greatest expectation was to share, mix, enter the population space (FEJUVE) of Bolivia's political capital (as Felix Cardenas), the city of El Alto. For large sections vision of forming a strategic encirclement of masses on La Paz in this period is a vital objective. Without exaggeration I think the "sophists" and "philosophers" Athenians feel some jealousy about how the University of poverty, the fight in the streets was able to provide much political wisdom in crowds, seemingly so little "cultured." Debate is a city that feels and lives the country; that is their identity, share with other brothers poor Bolivians. Heard everything, try to give a brief summary:
For the vast popular base is clear that the "new thread" (Bolivian oligarchic bourgeoisie, dependent on transnational corporations, especially oil companies) also failed to develop IDENTITY, could not form a country a nation is its great historical failure. The only thing that identifies them is big business, so they are alone. Desperate attempt (by copying the real axis of the Bolivian people movers) building at the last moment his "Identity Camba" his "Camba Nation", the "Camba Town." Just look at the signatories communiqués of the Civic Committees, to confirm that they are names of the "prosperous migration" of bourgeois oligarchy and "unprepared" middle-class areas and popular. (they are in Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, Pando)
After electoral defeat, the Bolivian elite plays its last card: the Civic Committees, the Constituent Assembly and the Autonomous Regions, depending on their alliances in Parliament, to avoid the loss of the institutions: civil, military, through a Constituent Assembly as Popular Organizations have proposed that gave victory to the MAS.
Bolivians To walk, the real power, the jugular of the "new thread "is supported by the oil and the geo-politics" gringo "for the Andean region and also made concrete agreements on various economic, political and military.
From this conception of the enemy, the people after these two months But the government and its pairing: Morales-Garcia Linera, begins to wonder: Why
the MAS government chose to "negotiate" only "reform" of the Constitution (only 20%, according to statements by Vice-President Radio Fides), only the "governance" of Bolivia with the oligarchic political parties: WE (Tuto Quiroga), A (Doria Medina), MNR (The Party of Sanchez de Lozada), etc..? Is it tactical, strategic?
54% who voted for the MAS prioritized-founding the country, the People's Constituent Assembly with unlimited powers, the construction of another company on other grounds. So why the MAS and the government agreed to a regulation for the Constituent and Autonomous Regions that ipso facto excluded the Indigenous Peoples, the Working Class, the urban popular movements that were the real stars of the past unarmed decisive events of this process ?.
Is it a "new strategy" of more established and hegemony as the expression "single" People's Movement Bolivia, forgetting perhaps the most important thing is to strengthen electoral victory, hegemony and imposing conditions on the real obstacles of a transformative process? Is this "new strategy" from the power that explains its aggressive action to create parallel organizations to the already established bases in Bolivia and has shown consistency with his anti-imperialist position, oligarch, in no way anti-MAS, anti-Morales? Why
remains the speech "refounding" when it is known beforehand that the Act and Regulations for the nomination and election of delegates to the Constituent Assembly, MAS will have an absolute majority (at best would cases 155 delegates, out of 244), the sine qua non is possible structural changes? Then maybe come or are already the "dark clouds" of negotiations, a prelude to the classic "justifications."
Why is subordinated the MAS government to pressure autonomist Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando have imposed the terms "potential" of autonomy, according to their privileges? Why MAS does not exercise his authority stems from the overwhelming electoral victory, what should be his greatest weakness in this vital and strategic issue? Why Evo Morales and Garcia Linera accept the prefecture Tarija STRATEGIC sign contracts with transnational companies and to the Proposal for New State autonomy to make the real Native Peoples of the Chaco, where 80% of proven reserves of oil and gas, the MAS government is "distraction" and transferred this important decision in the Constituent Assembly, where he knows he will be extremely difficult to respond favorably?
What occasions the MAS government has complained about the conspiracies of the oligarchy and imperialism, why has not acted with a clear strategy to cut the heart of power, or do they resign? Okay cut the branches, but the real problem is the trunk and roots and the only defenses of the Oligarchy are: prevent by all means a majority, to impose a form of autonomy that perpetuate them in power.
Finally, excluded from the Constituent: Indigenous Peoples, Workers and Urban Popular Movement, carefully follow the steps the government and the oligarchy. Since then prepare strategies to break the wall of isolation that has installed the compromise of the MAS and the "Opposition."
They have all the capacity to become an Independent Front easily Assembly may call a parallel People's truly defend their interests: The looming Popular Organizations and higher levels of confrontation, where trust will new forms of power, less timid, more daring.
Personally I think the "strategy of destabilization" has been underway since before the victory of the MAS, has now been translated and the government of Evo Morales-Garcia Linera begins to lose the initiative on the contrary the Bolivian oligarchic bourgeoisie begins to use all not only the "negotiation" but until the latest problems vindicated in certain sectors who voted for the MAS.
In this scenario, the attacks in La Paz, supposedly a "neutral terrorism" (U.S.) come from the fundamentalist "Christian" to Pat Robertson, or "butcher" Negroponte, source point to the same strategy. The allegations of a fraud that will be preparing supuestp MAS (with advice Cuba-Venezuela) for a majority in the Assembly, pointing to the same address.
Airline Bankruptcy Boliviano (LAB) fitted precisely with a dedication to the MAS government, forced to deal with workers and employees of the company with the government. The strike announced by transport organizations, the actions begin Pensioners and the elderly to be joined next week by the Magisterium Bolivian workers and employees of the Ministry of Health, began to trim spaces to maneuver the MAS government.
concerned is clear that this offensive tactical wear is the rule of E. Morales, but what really worries the Bolivian right-wing reaction and Washington is the high level of awareness and organization of the Bolivian people that are not tied to the MAS and the real enemies are strategic, because remember, as Washington calls for transparency to American politics reserves the language and actions of aggression and blackmail.
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