When I have to give lectures on the relationship between organized crime and the dictatorships of 21st century Socialism, the question always arises: What is a failed state? These types of questions are best answered by showing the positive concept.
A normal state is one that allows peaceful coexistence among its citizens, guarantees the right to private property, supports the poorest sectors of the population in matters of health and education, and respects the fundamental rights to life and liberty. Therefore, a failed state would be the opposite.
Since the Sao Paulo Forum invaded Bolivia in the 1990s, the country has suffered a series of subversive and terrorist actions. Their ultimate goal was to overthrow democratic governments to expand the sphere of influence of Castrochavism. That goal was achieved in October 2003.
From that tragic date, but especially with the approval of the new Political Constitution in 2009, the democratic institutions were corrupted to the point of turning the country into a narco-state. The current Bolivian constitution is basically a mechanism to keep the MAS gang in power. But not to guarantee the exercise of rights to Bolivian citizens.
Do you find my statements exaggerated?
Let’s see what the international indices say about Bolivia.
In the 2022 Index of Economic Freedom of the Fraser Institute – which has just presented data for 2020 – the Plurinational State of Bolivia ranks 123rd out of 165 countries evaluated, behind Togo and Djibouti, only ahead of Argentina and Venezuela.
In the 2022 International Property Rights Index, Bolivia ranks 121st out of a total of 129. The country ranks behind Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon or Mozambique. At the rate things are going, in a year Bolivian children replace Africans on posters against child malnutrition.
From 2017 to 2019, the tourism competitiveness ranking (prepared by the World Economic Forum) places Bolivia in 99th place among 136 nations studied. In other words, not even the millions of dollars that the regime allocated to the Dakar changed the perspectives of tourists about the country. We are not attractive for international tourism. There are few who want to visit Bolivia. Much less are we going to ask for large investments in the sector. It’s that simple.
At the beginning of September 2022, the UN published The Human Development Report 2020 – 2022. Well, here we didn’t do very well either. Bolivia ranks 118th out of 191 countries. But we have to emphasize an aggravating circumstance: at the South American level, the country is only above Venezuela.
The average of the marks obtained by the Third Comparative and Explanatory Regional Study (TERCE) is an investigation carried out by UNESCO since 2013. The country refused to participate in the study until 2017, the year in which it joined. Some 12,000 students from the nine departments participated in the exams. In the average of the notes, the country ranked 13th out of a total of 16. One of the “wonders” of Avelino Siñani’s law.
The UNITAS Rights Defenders Observatory, between January and August 2022, recorded a total of 107 violations of press freedom. The aggression against press workers is the most common type of violation, followed by the stigmatization of journalists – the dictatorship accuses any independent journalist of being a “pitita” – and the impediment of access to information.
In terms of threats, the most outstanding is the one that occurred in Santa Cruz regarding the kidnapping of journalists in Las Londras. Nicolás Ramírez, one of the kidnappers of journalists in October 2021, at a press conference demanded the withdrawal of the book Periodismo vs Terramafia by Roberto Méndez. In addition, acting as a gang thug, he threatened prosecutors, police and other journalists.
All in all, it is clear that “The process of change” was simply a return to barbarism and underdevelopment.
You hurt Bolivia!
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