In several previous writings I have already explained that indigenismo is nothing more than a reheated Marxist discourse. But that does not pit the poor against the rich, but whites against indigenous people.
Although indigenism is a discourse full of sophisms and fallacies, its real danger lies in the crimes committed in its name. Let’s see.
In Bolivia, using the “original nations” as a pretext, Filemón Escobar, Felipe Quispe, Álvaro García Linera and Evo Morales set the country on fire since the mid-1990s. But it was the latter who was chosen by Castrochavism as the dolphin of its dictatorial project.
Since the arrival of the coca grower to the presidential chair, massacres and coup d’état in between, it was the indigenous people of the lowlands of eastern Bolivia who have suffered the most. In fact, as a mechanism to consolidate the narco-state, in 2011 the Bolivian dictatorship tried to build a highway through the TIPNIS (a protected nature reserve). The inhabitants of that area (the Chimán, Yuracaré and Moxenos) expressed their discontent with the mega-work, and organized a march in defense of their territory.
What was the reaction of the “indigenous Bolivian” government to these protests?
Well, along with thugs armed with sticks and whips, he deployed the anti-riot teams of the Bolivian National Police. The intervention of the march resulted in dozens of injuries and seven deaths (half of them children). These episodes caused the resignation of Ministers María Cecilia Chacón and Sacha Llorenti.
It is worth clarifying something, here it was not an internal conflict, but an attempt to expand the coca border to favor the interests of the regional drug lords (Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Lula Da Silva and Evo Morales). Well, as Dr. John D’Auria (one of the world’s leading drug experts) explained, it takes a lot of coca to make small amounts of cocaine. Ergo, the great demand for the final product will be accompanied by a need to expand the cultivation of coca, especially in the hot lands.
Although Morales had to back down from his desire to build the TIPNIS highway, the siege against eastern Bolivia did not end. Even today, a decade later, the Bolivian regime does nothing to stop the enslavement of land in the department of Santa Cruz.
The same action is seen in the Patagonia of Argentina. Well, irregular groups and gangs ―who claim to “represent” the Mapuche― have been causing terror. Their criminal acts range from the burning of chapels of the Catholic Church, to the usurpation of private properties and public lands.
In an article entitled: The Mapuche question from history and the constitution, the writer Pablo Yurman indicated the following:
A first approximation clearly shows us that violence is deployed by small groups that are not an expression of the people whose representativeness their spokespersons or referents claim. It is enough to go to these points in our territory to easily see that such small violent groups generate massive rejection by the population in general, which was graphically demonstrated in November 2021 when gauchos participating in a festival in El Bolsón (Río Negro) dissolved to rebencazos a picket of “Mapuche” who tended to mistreat the neighbors.
Analogous to the Bolivian case, the activists of the Mapuche indigenous cause receive financing and support from NGOs that have their headquarters in the United States and Europe. For example, The Mapuche Nation is based in Bristol – England. In addition, its main spokespersons are the “original” Edward James (Public Relations), Colette Linehan (administrator), Madeline Stanley (Volunteer coordinator) and Fiona Waters (in charge of the Human Rights team). I don’t know about you, but to me that seems like another form of colonialism.
For Max Manwaring – an expert in security and organized crime – the discourses born in the stage after the collapse of the Soviet bloc have served the transnational gangs – especially Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Daniel Ortega, Evo Morales and other militants of the Socialism of the 21st century― to destabilize and overthrow governments.
The events that occurred in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Chile show us that indigenism is another of the pretexts used by Castrochavism to blow up democracy and establish dictatorships. It is not for the indigenous, it is for power.
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