For Bolivians, especially for those of us who maintain decency, it is very uncomfortable to be associated with Evo Morales and his falsehoods. It is very annoying to listen to any foreigner repeating the myths – among them, the economic “miracle” – of the first Bolivian “indigenous” government.
However, the reality is different, Evo is not indigenous and Bolivia’s economy is supported by pins. Let’s see.
Evo Morales was born on October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, a humble rural village in the department of Oruro. From a very young age he dedicated himself to herding llamas and agriculture. Later, with the desire to earn a living, he learned the most varied trades. For example, he was a baker, a brick maker and even a member of La Banda Real Imperial (a kind of murga whose technical capacity is reduced to street noise at carnivals). Those jumps from job to job took him to the Chapare and to plant Coca.
After the adjustment and economic stability programs of the mid-1980s, Bolivia had begun the 1990s with a frontal fight against drug trafficking and the cartels. Judicial measures such as Los repentantes and the Alternative Development Program sought to remove the country from the cocaine circuit. However, at the same time, Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva had already set their sights on Bolivia and, especially, on Bolivian cocaine finances.
Obviously, they needed an operator, a dolphin to manipulate. That role was assigned to Morales, who at that time was already a leader of the coca producers in the Chapare of Cochabamba.
Those same years, which coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union, the socialist trains had regrouped around the most varied NGOs. Precisely, these would be the ones in charge of romanticizing the fight against drug trafficking. In addition, to build the image of Evo as the “leader” of the humble and “liberator” of the indigenous. All that theatrical scene would be a camouflage to blow up Bolivian stability through terrorist actions.
For the record, the statements made above are not based on prejudice against a poor “indigenous”, but on statements made by Morales’ own panegyrists and publicists.
Specifically, Bruno Fornillo, in his book: Debate Bolivia, states that in the early 1990s more than 400 NGOs were created in the country. Fornillo goes on to detail how these institutions had structured a kind of parallel State. Likewise, the important role they played in the ideologization of the coca conflict.
The NGOs organized the urban protests and the rural gangs since the early 1990s. Similarly, they were the main protagonists in the 2003 coup d’état, which the subversives call: “The gas war.” A total falsehood, since it was never about defending gas, but about elevating drug traffickers to power.
Once seated in the presidential chair, Morales dedicated himself to destroying democratic institutions, looting public resources and setting up a narco-state. Right now, the country has an external debt of 12,697 million dollars, the highest in its history. But things get worse. Since Bolivia, unlike the first years of the Movement Towards Socialism, will not be able to obtain large incomes because there is no more gas.
As we can see, Evo Morales is a gang member who was elevated to the status of hero and statesman by the NGOs. He is a fetish for progressives at Starbucks who think they know the reality of Bolivia even better than Bolivians themselves. A criminal marketed as a liberator. An operator of Castrochavism who set up a dictatorship in my country.
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