THE OAS OMITS TO ACTIVATE THE INTERAMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CHARTER TO BOLIVIA.

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Venezuela’s farce of 2018 is now being replicated in Bolivia. What is criminal, dictatorial, and an usurpation in Venezuela, that without a doubt it is, has been backed by Secretary Almagro in Bolivia as a “human right” with the argument that “it would be discriminatory” to; enforce the law, respect the result of a binding referendum election and all the essential components of democracy.  To enable an usurper candidate and then help him -with observers- to legitimize an election that does not meet the minimum of requirements to be a “free, fair election based on universal suffrage concepts, with secret balloting as an expression of the people’s sovereignty” is by far contradictory with the binding contents of the Democratic Charter. What has happened in Bolivia is a “breakdown of the democratic order and the alteration of the constitutional order that have wrecked democracy”. We are left with the hope that democratic governments of OAS’ member states, now threatened by destabilization machinations taken against them by the Castroist Chavist dictatorships, will react and will no longer wait to address Bolivia’s case “in extremis” as has already happened with Venezuela and Nicaragua.

The Montaigne Dogma

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), who devised the essay as a literary genre, was one of the most erudite and sceptic humanist philosophers of the XVI century. He personified the French Renaissance’s spirit of freely embracing doubts. Montaigne claims that “…no profit whatever can possibly be made but at the expense of another…”. Montaigne dogma fails to recognize that poverty is what results if wealth is not produced. The erroneous Montaigne dogma has misdirected the attention of governments into expensive and ineffectual “Wars on Poverty”, and wealth redistribution policies, rather than on strategies to promote wealth acquisition. If nations are serious about reducing poverty, they must discard the harmful Montaigne dogma and embrace passionately the freedom for citizens to create and keep wealth.

From Hong Kong to Puerto Rico is People’s Power

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The people of Hong Kong have decided that their land is to be free and that it is worthwhile to give their lives to protect freedom. China thus needs to co-exist with a relatively free Hong Kong if it is to become a world financial power. It could be hard for Hong Kong to keep its independence given that the population mix would change in favor of acceptance of totalitarianism. In Puerto Rico, the people decided that they had had it with corrupt and inept governments. Puerto Ricans have decided to take their destiny in their hands to get rid of bad rulers and clarify the nation’s political status. The  road towards achieving such goal will be long and full of obstacles but booming political maturity of the Puerto Rican people is a the greatest asset to achieve the goal of either becoming and independent nation or part of the US.

El dogma de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), que concibió el ensayo como género literario, fue uno de los más eruditos y escépticos filósofos humanistas del siglo 16. Personificó el espíritu del Renacimiento francés de abrazar dudas sin reservas. Montaigne señala que “…solamente es posible lograr algún beneficio a expensas de otros…”. O como algunos lo interpretan, “La pobreza de los pobres se debe a la riqueza de los ricos”. El dogma de Montaigne no reconoce que la pobreza es el resultado de no producir riqueza. El erróneo dogma de Montaigne ha desviado la atención de gobiernos hacia inefectivas “guerras contra la pobreza” y políticas de redistribución de riquezas más que a estrategias para promover adquisición de riquezas. Si las naciones desean reducir pobreza, deben abandonar el dañino dogma de Montaigne y abrazar apasionadamente la libertad de los ciudadanos para crear y mantener riquezas.