by Alejandro Saravia
How can we explain the fact of owning land, big, huge tracts of land in a country like Bolivia? In its colonial origin, individual ownership of land appears as royal gift. A English king, tricky, ambitious in its conception of the Viceroyalty of Upper Peru, royal decrees and orders signed giving land the size of whole countries, including its people, its advanced bible and sword, in that circle of peninsular denied by fortune in his own land, adventurous, violent giants with pretensions of grandeur at court.
Defeated the English in Ayacucho in 1824, founded a year later a Bolivian republic that does not alter the form of land ownership. Now they are the Creoles, strutting surnames and remote peninsular inheritance, appropriate control of the state, deciding that in a majority indigenous country, only those men can vote, and only men who are "outstanding", ie traders, owners mines, estates and also read and write Castilian, in a multilingual country. Suddenly, a tiny group of oligarchs is control of Bolivia and administration with zeal looter who embody so well Patiño. Undermined the Revolution of 1952, enter the picture predatory species of Sanchez de Losada. The military dictatorships of Banzer even before, but with Banzer, knew buying silence and complicity with the delivery of land to his acolytes. Exist in the eastern Bolivian landowners to be jovial bed, fame and fortune in land reclaimed from the abuse, exile and death of the years of dictatorship. Economic groups exist in Bolivia in the east of the country that for decades were breastfed roughly what the miners, indigenous Aymara and Quechua read, put in lungs in the tunnels of Llallagua and Siglo XX. Banks were looted by these agribusiness entrepreneurs, that entrepreneurs were more than leeches National Treasury. Parasites that could nicely out of the hassle of having to return to the state banks borrowed money thanks to the magician passes with which the country Mauro Bertero transferred debts and other landowners vivillos good name to the Bolivian state. And now those "elites" Bolivians are disguising themselves as heroic and Democrats. Take to the streets to oppose the lands that belong to the state, return to the State rather than the State, indigenous peoples. Now go to the streets of Santa Cruz these youths donkeys neofacistas to beat the defending agrarian reform. Monolingual barbarian hordes that refugees in their small pool of cultural references, can not understand what the indigenous bilingual or trilingual knows: that the country can not continue living under a colonial regime internally, you can not continue to accept that there is a form of slavery in some estates in southern Bolivia. MNR important frogs, dealers and other powders consciences MIR, those nostalgic for the "peace, order and work" of DNA, now in a political transvestite, WE have become, in the brotherhood of reactionary or blind society in the best are those who propose to continue as if no corruption of democracy that the country experienced since 1982. Beyond them, the people "rather nice" of Bolivia, people think blood is blue in a country of Indians, the people that have studied abroad underestimate the forms of organization and leadership of Bolivian indigenous world. Beyond the clever Chicago boys who have sown so much misery from the Ministry of Finance. Bolivian oligarchy who walk their doodles of the new rich by the world's airports, landowners such ill-gotten lands are areas that, in combating land reform and the work of the Constituent Assembly, refuse to understand that Bolivia is a country indigenous majority impoverished by decades of neoliberal looting and it is time to find a new way of living, not paternalism cultural, or economic or political.
Andres Soliz Rada 
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