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This upcoming 20th of October presidential elections in Bolivia will be held using the “vote-catching dictatorship”. In this electoral process, spruced up with functional opposition´s candidates who fracture the option of having real opposition and who enable, legitimize, and ensure the criminal reelection of Morales, Bolivia can again say NO through Civil Resistance by means of casting a vote in blank. Evo Morales is a “usurper candidate” because he has seized ownership of a right that legitimately does not belong to him, and he does so with violence, appropriating to himself the dignity and the position that do not belong to him, using them as though they were his own”. This is why it is urgent for Bolivians and international defenders of democracy and human rights to make the world to acknowledge this usurpation and take measures accordingly. Proof and consequence of these crimes are the almost five (5) million acres intentionally burned in protected areas and national parks in order to expand the areas for the cultivation of illegal coca-leaf/cocaine. Such a severe crisis leaves but one option for the people to take “Civil Resistance”. The time in which the dictatorial apparatus has very few possibilities of success is on election´s day. The act of going to the ballot box, in which every Bolivian citizen is compelled to vote, is the best time to defeat Evo Morales and his dictatorship through civil resistance. Since neither the political parties, nor the so–called opposition candidates have been able to unite, the people can, this upcoming 20th of October, CAST A BLANK VOTE as an expression of their rejection and as a measure of civil resistance to force the usurper to leave the government. Bolivia can again say NO to the dictatorship by CASTING A BLANK VOTE, delegitimizing Morales and tracing a path for the return of democracy and the Republic.
The beauty of modern times lies in the guaranteed unending parade of triviality that envelopes news castings and transmissions worldwide. This past week, for instance, world media has concentrated in discussing whether John Bolton was fired or whether he resigned as National Security Advisor to president Donald Trump. Consequently, despite the shower of words uttered or written on the subject matter the world missed the true meaning of the event. Clearly, Mr Bolton did not match the casting needs of Mr Trump’s reality show and had to be ceased. So, the real question now is not whether Mr Bolton resigned or was kicked out of the White House but how will the reality show will progress and who will be recruited for the job left empty by Mr Bolton. As for Mr Bolton’s replacement, stay tuned, there are several reality TV pros warming at the bullpen. Notably among them Secretary Pompeo.
Several events have happened in the last several weeks that are worrisome for hemispheric security. The first is the victory of Alberto Fernandez and his candidate for vice-president, the former president Cristina Kirchner, in the Argentinean primaries. The second is the ouster of National Security Advisor John Bolton. Most recently, Mr. Fernandez stated that the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is not a dictatorship because it is an elected government. There is absolutely no institution that functions in Venezuela except against the well-being of society. Democracy should be about government of the people, by the people and for the people. In Venezuela it is exactly the opposite. Another worrisome event is the departure of John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Bolton was one of the main pushers for regime change in Venezuela. Bolton created false expectations not only for Trump but also for the Venezuelan opposition and the Venezuelan people. However, Bolton was very assertive in making every possible effort to get rid of the Maduro regime and these efforts are worth continuing. Bolton’s departure has raised concerns in Venezuela. Recent events must not give comfort to the murderous and terrorist Venezuelan regime.
Here I am follow some of the worst case scenarios of the trend of outsiders helming countries around the world — from a full invasion of Hong Kong and Taiwan by communist China, to nuclear weapons in Venezuela.
Ecocide is a neo-logism that means “the destruction of the environment, in a particular deliberate way”. An ecosystem is a “biological system comprised by a community of living organisms and the physical environment in which they inter-relate” and the suffix “cide” means “the act of killing”. Ecocide is, therefore, the act of killing an ecosystem, along with all living organisms that comprise it, as is exactly happening with the devastation produced by the forest fires in Bolivia, aggravated by the fact that Morales does not want to reach out and ask for international aid to put out these fires. For several weeks, Bolivia has been suffering tropical forest fires that have already burned over 2.5 million acres along with its flora and fauna and these fires are far from being controlled. The destruction of the environment was always part of Evo Morales´ activities whom for over 30 years, promotes and defends –with violence and death if needed- the implantation and expansion of illicit coca leaf cultivation as the raw material of cocaine and narcotics’ trafficking. The Friends of Nature Foundation (fan-bo.org) reports that “in the years between 2005 and 2018, over 17.75 million acres of tropical forestry have been burned in Bolivia. This would further show that in his 14 years of holding power, Evo Morales and his Castroist Chavist dictatorship have made ecocide a recurrent practice for his own benefit.
“Both Bernie Sanders and Emmanuel Macron are victims of what Professor Yehezkel Dror labeled ‘the mirror image trap’,” “They both end up in an ivory tower that dries out their correct instincts while detaching them from ordinary citizens.”
In the primary elections in Argentina, the government party lost by a relatively large margin of 15%. According to Argentina’s law, anybody can vote in the primaries as long as he/she votes one time. There is no need for party registration or affiliation. Macri’s chances are not impossible, but he has to work hard to convince voters to vote for him. But perhaps more important, it was Alberto Fernandez’ ability to unify a Peronist movement that set the path to victory. Kirchner is part of the economic problem that Macri needed to confront. The question is if Fernandez will continue Macri’s position towards Venezuela. Will Fernandez reverse his position towards the pro-Maduro left-wing camp or will he be a different type leader? What will happen is uncertain. However, it is important to be ready for the worst-case scenario. Therefore, it is important for the United States and the Lima Group to begin to reach to Mr. Fernandez to make sure that Argentina stays among those who demand freedom, human rights and regime change in Venezuela and those who remain committed to democracy and human rights in the continent.
Americas’ Transnational Organized Crime’s dictatorships are “vote-catching dictatorships”. They hold elections in which people vote but do not elect, taking the people to a situation in which by voting for the functional opposition’s candidates, they vote for the permanence of the dictator. In a vote catching dictatorship what is contested with the regime is not the legality but the legitimacy. The dictatorial legality is totally built, controlled, and manipulated by the regime that legislates. Legitimacy is that which is “legal, fair, genuinely truthful, and truthful in any line”, that which is allowed according to justice and reasoning.
For decades — or rather, for the better part of the 20th century — Marxist dogma silently penetrated the intellectual networks of Latin America. And like hemlock it quietly pierced all fields of knowledge production to create paralysis and inoculate the dogma.”
In Venezuela Mr Maduro who has given ample proof that he is by no means affected by public opinion or voting intentions, seems to be searching for the fire escape after all. Mr Maduro seems to be desperately searching for a scape his Cuban masters have decreed immolation. A martyr is a much better ideological currency than an exiled leader. For Maduro a sudden climate change in the military could indeed spell havoc to him , his family and his retinue. Perhaps it is now time to set his eyes in the cold Russian steppes. This would definitely be a rather creative climate change.
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