Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.

BOLIVIA, 6.25 MILLION ACRES DEVASTATED AND THE ECOCIDE CONTINUES

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Evo Morales´ ecocide in Bolivia continues unabated with –up to now- 6.25 million acres of forest devastated by fire. There is no difference in the conduct and criminal aftermath between Morales and the other known dictators; Castro, Chavez, Maduro, and Ortega. The assassinations, torture, quantity of political prisoners could be greater in number in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, but in Bolivia Morales commits the same crimes that has included over 20 bloody massacres, dead, political prisoners and exiles, and thousands of persecuted. In the narcotics´ trafficking realm, Evo Morales takes the lead. His government has increased the cultivation of illegal coca-leaf. “CastroChavism is the term that describes the Transnational Organized Crime´s system that usurps political power in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia.  Those who comprise it must be treated as part of the organized crime´s structure and not as politicians, let alone as dignitaries”. The tropical forest fires in Bolivia are Morales´ most recent crime. Besides promoting the fires, Evo Morales acts with criminal negligence because he did not activate, in a timely manner, the resources and personnel needed to control them. To put Evo Morales´ crimes in perspective, the devastated area by the fires is over 6.26 million acres, or 9,615 square miles,

FARC BACK TO ARMS IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN ORGANIZED CRIME´S CASTROIST CHAVIST DICTATORSHIPS.

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The FARC´s announcement they are going back to the armed fight is only the most recent Castroist Chavist event in a chain of conspiracy against Americas´democracies. The FARC´s actions are meant to destabilize Colombia. “CastroChavism” (Castro and Chavez) is the terms that describes the “Transnational Organized Crime Group”. It is an organization controlled by the Cuban dictatorship that conceals through political labels the crimes its members commit daily with the violation of human rights and basic freedoms. The CastroChavism system claims they are “defending the revolution”.  They defend narcotics´ trafficking proclaiming that “the war against narcotics´ trafficking is an instrument created by the imperialism to oppress the people”. The CastroChavism system also conspires against democracies through narcotics´ trafficking, applying Castro and Che Guevara´s manifesto “to flood the empire with drugs to eliminate its youth”.

VOTE IN BLANK, CIVIL RESISTANCE TO EVO MORALES IN BOLIVIA FOR USURPATION AND ECOCIDE

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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.

Missing the reality Show

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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.

Change of Regional Governments and the Departure of John Bolton May Involve Risks for Hemispheric Security

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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.

Those who have nothing to say, and say it very badly

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Should a tolerant society allow a fascist like Steve Bannon, or a socialist like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the right to disseminate intolerant ideas that undermine the foundations of society? In current free speech practice, we seem to have adopted a double standard. Totalitarian views of the right (e.g. fascism) are not to be tolerated, but totalitarian views of the left (e.g., communism) are permissible. Let’s review the historical facts of democide by fascist and communist regimes. Democide, or death by government, is the useful term introduced by R. J. Rummel to define “the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command.” In a liberal society, the rule of law must protect even odious beliefs. Perhaps the most consistent way to address the paradox of tolerance is not to display intolerance to ideas that make us uncomfortable, that differ from ours, or even to ideas that make us mad. We should reach for intolerance only when those ideas present a clear and present danger to our political order. Meanwhile, we can choose to avoid those politicians, celebrities, and columnists who have nothing to say, and say it very badly.

Slavery Bounces Back !!!

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In 1948 upon the adoption of the Universal declaration on Human rights the world sighted in relief. Slavery had finally been vanquished, as from now on slavery would be illicit. Soon after several strains of the disease began to sprout all over the world. These are sex trafficking, forced labor and migrant smuggling. And contrary to what many think, human trafficking is a very profitable endeavor. These economic returns are one of the pillars on which transnational organized crime builds other criminal activities such as terrorism finance and drug trafficking. In the end only organized crime gains with human trafficking. The creation of an appropriate international coordination center with secure technical equipment with capacity to direct law enforcement agencies to the very spots where criminal rings concentrate assets and resources, establish stash houses and place victims. Identification of money deposits would also be very useful in so far as the trade cannot be deployed without cash.

AMAZON´S ECOCIDE, EVIDENCE OF DICTATOR EVO MORALES´ CRIME

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 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.