The lesson to be drawn from the Armistice celebrations is that we need to prioritize the revaluation of our public policy assumptions lest we want to be in the sad position of picking the ashes of an international order that is signaling exhaustion. .
Currently, the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan crisis are occupying the U.S. and the Organization of American States’ (OAS) attention, but It is clear that Bolivia is next to erupt and that this country needs to be closely monitored. Now is the time for the international community to speak up before it is too late.
Bolivia is living today a growing social and political crisis generated by Evo Morales’ persistence to remain indefinitely in power. The constitution of his “Plurinational State” allows Morales a one-time consecutive reelection. With the use of every trick in the book, massacres, corruption, and other crimes, Evo Morales called for a Bolivian people’s referendum to allow for his indefinite reelection.
Organized crime has prospered every time the world economy shifts its production methods geographically or technologically, Bags of unregulated territories serve as theater to illicit activities. And those perpetrating and enriching themselves from those activities take hold of the uncontrolled territory (ies).
The greatest propaganda efforts by the 21st Century Socialism’s or Castroist Chavist’s dictatorships has been, and still is, to feign democracy. The Castroist Chavist dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia, all have the same features, methodology, and agenda, therefore Bolivia’s dictatorship cannot remain covered up by misjudgment, omission or convenience.
What best way to end a nefarious practice than to say that you will consult the people. To be sure, when it comes to corruption, people seem to know better than leaders the who, what, and when of corruption
“Americas’ reality is worsening because the Castroist Chavist system shows that its actions and objectives are not of a political nature but totally belong to the Organized Crime arena.”
Secure property rights facilitate economic transactions, ensure efficient and sustainable resource use, allow for the evolution of effective credit markets, improve business climate and investment opportunities, and ensure economic accountability and transparency.
Brazil’s democracy has proven to be one of the strongest. There is freedom of the press and a reliable electoral system. In a crisis, but institutionally vigorous, Brazil points that its next President will be Jair Bolsonaro and offers a vital contribution to democracy in Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas.
There is something fundamentally wrong in the way we are approaching political and human rights crimes. What is our definition of what constitutes a human rights crime? Do we have one? If not, we will continue to depend on media coverage and pressure groups that will define it for us.
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