Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
As Russia and Britain lead the way in deploying Covid19 vaccines through their territories, the world awaits with anguish for the turn to initiate the battle against the most deadly virus to confront humanity since the Spanish Flu that killed 50M people between 1918-1920. So called emerging markets are the most concerned.
Part of the Castrochavist strategy is to treat each case as an isolated case of voting under a dictatorship. In Bolivia they already committed fraud and reinstated the “Dictator-In Chief” Evo Morales with his executive Luis Arce and now this will be overshadowed by the importance and new criminal scandal of holding parliamentary elections on 6 December in Venezuela. Treat each case as an isolated case when, truthfully, this is about the same Transnational Organized Crime group, committing the same crimes, with the same objectives and with the same weapons, all while they increase persecutions, assassinations, political prisoners and exiles.
Consequently, the avalanche of grief for Maradona’s passing is in essence a requiem for a region that is about to lose yet another historic opportunity when the rebuilt world supply chain favors Asia in the aftermath of covid19.
The Paradox of Freedom is the proposition that the freedom of an unchecked government necessarily leads to a loss of freedom for the people. This is because an unrestrained government is free to impose overwhelming controls to enslave a compliant population. And yet, as shown by this classification, in most contemporary economic systems, government controls are believed to be good and necessary.
When the UN decided to hold a conference on Science and Technology for development back in 1979 neither Europe nor the United States were prepared to face a rebellion staged by young Latin Americans that wanted Science and Technology to become the development lever it had never been. Tunisia chaired the Group of 77 but it was within the Latin American Group that forward thinking ideas to insert science and technology into people’s everyday lives came to being.
Factual reality leaves us no doubt that the Chieftain of the restored Castrochavist regime in Bolivia is Evo Morales and his surrogate operator is Luis Arce. It is not dual power; it is vertical power under Morales’ command and he exerts his authority over his former Minister of Economy, fraudulently declared the winning candidate. It is the maneuvering directed and operated by Castrochavism’s strategists that are now being reinstalled at the Cuban and Venezuelan embassies in Bolivia.
Some day the Cuban nation will form a new government for the Cuban state. Yet, the success of a free republic hinges on the civic virtues of its nation. My illusion for Cuba remains one of a nation-state of tolerance, kindness, respect, humility, gratitude, honor, industry, courage, fidelity, and more. But somedays it feels more like a delusion.
We must understand that today the axis of political and social confrontation in Bolivia is neither ideological, nor regional, nor racial, nor generational. The axis of confrontation is “the dictatorship, the narco-state, and Castrochavism” against “democracy, the Republic, and the Bolivian nation”. It boils down to a “an existential confrontation” whose result will be either the consolidation of the dictatorship as a satellite of the Transnational Organized Crime which is Castrochavism, or to give back democratic and republican freedom based on the Bolivian nation as an expression of unity in diversity. It is the dilemma of either turning Bolivia into a Cuba or a Venezuela, or to be free, independent, and sovereign.
Following the proved electoral fraud committed by Evo Morales and his regime in, and for, the 20 October 2019 elections whose flagrancy generated the civil resistance of the Bolivian people and the resignation and flight of Morales, NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE DICTATORIAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN BOLIVIA. A system with which the counterfeiting, supplantation, alterations, and all sorts of crime were prepared and committed and constitute fraud. Perpetrators of those crimes have continued to go unpunished and are candidates for elections, the mechanism -the disqualified MAS political party- was enabled to continue as a political party.
For example, the company known for the Gore-Tex brand discovered that when more than 150 employees worked together in one building, it gave rise to a variety of social problems, impairing employee cohesiveness. The company started building work centers with a limit of 150 employees. When production capacity needed to be expanded, the company would build another 150-employee building. Similarly, military companies do not exceed 150 soldiers in most armies.
