[News] "It's Now or Never": Bolivian Elite Destroying the Country

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  "It's Now or Never": Bolivian Elite Destroying the Country

Edu Montesanti - November 7, 2019
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To the Bolivian upper classes, President Evo Morales has to resign even 
if forced by extreme violence, or through a civil war.

"It's now or never!", said a family in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, gathered 
close to Christ the Redeemer statue where thousands of demonstrators and 
road blockers stay seven days of the week, night and day.

That statement was in response to this reporter's observance, that 
circumstances in Bolivia were getting out of control leading to a civil 
war. Answering that, the family laughed and did not hesitate in 
declaring: "We want things to get out of control. This is the only way 
to overthrow this president, once and for all."


      Violence, Our Daily Bread

For almost 20 days, the South American country is economically stopped, 
as opposition groups are blocking roads and preventing trade, in the 
last case with exceptions some short times for markets.

However, if one walks by The Ramada, commercial center in downtown Santa 
Cruz de la Sierra, sees almost every trade with open doors, an act of 
disobedience to the rebel leaders of the national strike. This author 
has talked to some local merchants.

"Nobody in this area supports the strike," said to this author a woman 
merchant. "In the city, generally, not everybody opposes the President, 
on the contrary, I could say people are divided," added the old woman, 
who owns a large store in The Ramada.

The owner's daughter added: "Nobody did for Bolivia what President Evo 
Morales has done. He has granted several rights to workers, as no 
president did before. This is one thing that angers the elite."

Everybody has been afraid to publicly speak, given the uncertainty and 
virulence in the essence of the current protests that take the nation. 
Recently, in this area, a woman spoke out against the strike saying 
people want and need to work as there is no money nor food anymore. She 
was beaten and obliged to kneel and ask demonstrators for forgiveness.

In regions like Cochabamba, Potosi, and La Paz, the situation is more 
tense, with frequent clashes between pro-government and opponent groups, 
and several wounded. In Cochabamba, a 20-year old man was killed last 
Wednesday, a victim of severe head injury, skull base fracture and brain 
death due to confrontations, which grow more and more. The civil war is 
fastly advancing in Bolivia.


      Fury without Rationality

The following has been a rule in Bolivia, before the last presidential 
election: the opposition spills their hate against the local government, 
especially against President Evo Morales but when confronted with some 
official data, internationally recognized in favor of the first 
indigenous president of the nation, criticism change its direction.

What had seen strong condemnations against the "situation of the 
country", quickly changed to "a future dictator if many years in power." 
So they start to explain their political theories about more than two or 
three mandates in the Presidency. And so, they create their conjectures.

Angela Merkel has been the German Prime-Minister since 2005, as her 
country has a solid democracy not questioned in Bolivia nor nowhere 
around the world. What determines a strong democracy in a country, is 
the solidity of its institutions.

Last Monday evening, the biggest demonstration against President Evo 
Morales since the elections on Oct. 20, took place in Santa Cruz de la 
Sierra.

"We will siege every government institution including tax collectors 
ones, and national borders, so the government won't collect one cent. 
Evo is going to be a president without a State!", said in the 
demonstration Luis Fernando Camacho, the leader of the current national 
strike based out in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Camacho's biography and ancestry, outlined below in this report, is 
another serious indication that what is advancing in Bolivia is a Color 
Revolution, idealized by the American Gene Sharp to overthrow 
governments all over the world, not aligned to the Washington regime.

President Evo Morales has challenged the opposition to give evidence of 
fraud to the Organization of American States (OAE), which has been 
auditing the Bolivia election. So far, nobody presented any piece of 
evidence of fraud regarding the last presidential election; the 
opposition claim, since OAS arrival to audit the elections, they do not 
want any audit nor a runoff anymore, but Morales' resignation and new 
elections.

This reporter has checked people lost in their observances, as emotions 
overflowed. One of the features of a Color Revolution. It has been this 
way in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Brazil, and other countries lately.

There are other features in these protests is in Bolivia, clearly 
pointing to a Color Revolution.


      Paying for Demonstrators

There have been witnesses that road blockers have gotten 200 bolivianos 
(US$29) per day. A woman confirmed that information to this author, who 
says she has met a road blocker who has spoken to her about it.

Camacho has recognized 
<https://www.primeralinea.info/presidente-del-comite-pro-santa-cruz-financio-la-quema-del-ted/>that 
he paid 1,200 bolivianos (US$174) to a Cruceñista Youth Union member to 
burn the Electoral Tribunal in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Oct. 23.

The businessman also speaks out 
<https://www.primeralinea.info/presidente-del-comite-pro-santa-cruz-financio-la-quema-del-ted/> 
when telling he funds all kinds of demonstrations against the current 
government, "and always did [before the elections]," which included the 
attacks against several official party's head offices across Santa Cruz 
de la Sierra, on Sept.12.


      U.S.-Backed Groups

Recent revelations point to a U.S.-backed plan of shaking the nation. 
The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) has released 16 audios 
<https://erbol.com.bo/nacional/surgen-16-audios-que-vinculan-c%C3%ADvicos-exmilitares-y-eeuu-en-planes-de-agitaci%C3%B3n>, 
which uncover talks between U.S. officials, Bolivian opponents, and 
former military.

In a three-part plan outlined by U.S. officials, former President 
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (2002-2003) is mentioned. Lozada had Carlos 
Mesa (the principal opponent of Morales in the last election) as his 
vice-president and currently lives in the U.S.

  U.S. senators Bob Menendez, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio are some of the 
American officials mentioned in the audios, linked to the Bolivian 
opposition planning a coup against President Evo Morales.

Officials of the State Department accredited in the country, such as 
Mariane Scott and Rolf A. Olson, have been meeting with high level 
diplomatic officials from Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, in order that 
they organize and plan destabilization actions against the Bolivian 
government, as well as delivering the U.S. funds to the Bolivian opposition.

(...) Parallel, in the month of July a private meeting between the 
opponents Jaime Antonio Alarcón Daza, Iván Arias and other members of 
the civic committees was carried out, in which it was agreed to acquire 
“machines for fast vote-counting” for the coming presidential elections, 
for the sake of manipulating public opinion on the electoral results.

"These machines would altogether have a cost of US$300,000. The U.S. 
Embassy and the representation of the European Union in the country 
would contribute to financing the purchase, which they would provide 
through the Jubileo Foundation and the Evangelical Church. With that 
specific aim, they have already managed to gather more of US$800,000, 
from which the payment to the people participating in the fast count of 
votes would also come out."

An attack against the Cuban Embassy in Bolivia has also been planned.

All the audios, which include the three-part plan to achieve a regime 
change in Bolivia, can be read here 
<https://bbackdoors.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/us-hands-against-bolivia-part-i/>.

Touching Emotion through the Mainstream Media of Propaganda

Demonstrations in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, according to the Bolivian 
mainstream media, have been held "at the feet of Christ" strongly 
touching people's emotions, especially the people's faith. In Bolivia's 
biggest city, demonstrators are used to gathering, as mentioned above, 
around Christ the Redeemer statue.

So the virulent and anti-democratic demonstrations which are shaking the 
South American country, leaving many people without food, have an aspect 
of sacrosanct manifestations by the media - who is against them, is 
against God and in favor of the Devil. Or something like that.

Religious leaders have used people like puppets for so long in Bolivia. 
Which of course requires using imagination. It has been so very strong, 
that this reporter had predicted exactly what is going on these days in 
Bolivia, months ago.

Speaking out loud and clear, to the fundamental participation of 
religious leaders who have dedicated most of their time to spread lies, 
discrimination, and hate among the Bolivian people, with clear aims. 
They are mute now, before too much violence in the country.

Such misuse of people's emotions is not only a Color Revolution feature 
these days, but was a pillar to the ascension of Germany's Nazism in the 
1930s.

In these dark and too tense days in Bolivia, the mainstream media of 
propaganda is playing a fundamental role in the demonstration’s favor. 
It has been a bombardment by what can be denominated a war media. No 
investigation, no impartiality, only propaganda.


      Fighting the Wrong Enemy

Oct. 31 evening, when the situation aggravated in Bolivia, this reporter 
checked one of the main crossroads in the highly tense Santa Cruz de la 
Sierra, blocked 24 hours per day by demonstrators.

That day in the city, a policeman had been severely beaten by opponent 
civilians to the Morales administration. One day before, two men had 
been killed in Santa Cruz de la Sierra outskirts (Pravda reported 
<http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/144015-bolivia/>).

When this investigation crossed the blocking, under the surveillance of 
its controllers, a so very loudly radio was saying: "We are reporting 
multitudinous demonstrations taking place right now in Potosi! 
Multitudinous demonstrations taking place right now in Cochabamba! 
  Multitudinous demonstrations taking place right now in Santa Cruz de 
la Sierra!  Multitudinous demonstrations taking place right now in La Paz!".

Suddenly, in a much more touching way, the narrator said: "In La Paz, 
the multitude shout, 'No more Cubans, get out Cubans! No more Russians, 
get out, Russians! No more Chineses, get out Chineses!". A saying 
started to be spread in Santa Cruz, that "Vladimir Putin has already 
sent his men to kill everybody in Bolivia."

So the popular claim in Bolivia changed from recounting the votes to a 
runoff, no matter the results of the election; another election; Evo 
Morales' resignation; combating the "big enemies" of the nation, the 
nightmare of the Bolivian elites, Cubans, Russians, and Chinese.

Needless to address the absurdities of these remarks. Not to mention the 
absence of the U.S. in the memory of that same elite given the military 
coups Uncle Sam has perpetrated against democracies in the region - 
including Bolivia -, and the plunder of the natural resources of the 
Bolivian nation (before Evo Morales years in the Presidency).

Luis Fernando Camacho is based-out in Santa Cruz, and most of his public 
appearances against the Bolivian president, are in his native city. An 
entrepreneur, he is the president of Committee Pro-Santa Cruz, devoted 
to advocating justice and progress to Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

The billionaire has not been voted president of the Committee by the 
"cruceño" (original from Santa Cruz de la Sierra) people, but by the 
committee summit. It is widely said in the city that the tycoon won the 
presidency of the organization through millionaire bribes. Which 
coincides with the Bolivian too corrupted reality.

Camacho's committee has a long history of spreading racism, 
discrimination, hate, and violence in Bolivia. In 2008, the organization 
took part in the violent attempt of separate Santa Cruz de la Sierra 
from Bolivia. At the time, in response to a false denouncement by the 
Committee Pro-Santa Cruz against the Morales administration, 
International Federation for Human Rights seriously rebuked the 
organization now presided by Camacho, for attacking indigenous people, 
State institutions, and speech and acts for secessionism (read Open 
Letter 
<https://www.fidh.org/es/region/americas/bolivia/El-Comite-Civico-pro-Santa-Cruz>). 


Camacho is 40 years old; he and his family are part of Grupo Empresarial 
de Inversiones Nacional Vida S.A 
<http://www.nacionalseguros.com.bo/grupo-nacional-vida/quienes-somos>., 
a synergy insurance company, His father, José Luis Camacho Miserendino, 
founded Sergas, a gas company which, in 1989, had contracts with the 
neoliberal state linked to insurance companies and pension funds.

Sergas owes 20 million de bolivianos 
<https://www.primeralinea.info/camacho-promueve-el-paro-para-volver-a-aduenarse-del-negocio-del-gas-en-santa-cruz/> 
(US$2,890,173) to the Bolivian State for tax evasion, when the company 
supplied gas to Santa Cruz de la Sierra city. So what is at stake is 
possibly debt forgiveness if a neoliberal government takes again the 
power in the South American country. It is said and makes sense that if 
Carlos Mesa takes the power, substituting Evo Morales in a coup or a 
resignation, the once Lozada's vice-president will immediately forgive 
Sergas debt with the State.

Camacho's committee acts close to Cruceñista Youth Union, widely known 
for fascist sayings and doings - also for having led the violent and 
failed project of separating Santa Cruz de la Sierra from Bolivia, in 2007.

Last Wednesday, Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez, alias Tuto Quiroga, 
landed in Santa Cruz de la Sierra to meet and support Camacho. Quiroga 
was vice-president of Hugo Banzer (1971-78, 1997-2001), a bloody 
dictator pro-Washington regime.

Most recently and closest to Bolivia, Brazil in the world scenario of 
Color Revolution overthrew President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, to give 
place to Michel Temer who paved the way for fascist Jair Bolsonaro. 
Since the coup against Dilma Rousseff, the mainstream media, the upper 
classes, and the political opposition has said that once the first woman 
president in Brazil's history was toppled, the South American country 
would find its way back to democracy and economic growth.

Needless to address the Brazilian situation since then. Just worthy to 
mention: those Brazilian segments do not care about corruption anymore, 
nor have been seen in that too loud strong state of hysteria for 
economic growth as in 2016.

If the planned coup succeeds in Bolivia, this country will surely have 
the same fate as Brazil, economically and politically saying.


      A Long Process Based on Misinformation and Hate

"I hate Evo Morales!" said in July last year in a talk to this reporter, 
a Santa Cruz de la Sierra-bases out hairdresser woman - without any 
political justification to that deep sentiment. A white professional at 
40 years of age, only hates. She openly hates the first indigenous 
president in Bolivia's history.

Cochabamba's Lawmaker Norma Pierola has been prosecuted for racism for 
not greeting <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplCxVXDFTA> President Evo 
Morales in an official activity, late last year. Norma alleged that 
Morales does not respect women as a president, without any justification 
for that. On the contrary, the Morales administration is well-known 
including among critics for granting rights for women, the LGBT 
community, and indigenous people.

At that time, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Governor Ruben Costas called 
<https://www.facebook.com/499026233847716/photos/a.499029067180766/636260846790920/?type=1&theater> 
indigenous people "dumb and stupid," so rekindling the fire of deep 
racism that used to shame Bolivia in the years previous to Evo Morales.

This video shows strong acts of racism and discrimination Evo Morales is 
suffering since took power in 2006, and strong violence against innocent 
and unarmed indigenous people and peasants, "a damn race." Shocking 
images taped especially in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, before Evo Morales 
in the Presidency, who has, with the Congress mostly composed of its 
partisans, passed bills that severely punish acts of discrimination.

But the deep hate has been kept inside hearts, even growing in many 
people's sentiments through the years. It has been strongly realized by 
talking to people, who do not tolerate a "red skin," a peasant, or a 
different accent. Or even an Evo voter.

"If Camacho gets his aims, this atmosphere of discrimination, racism, 
hate, and deep violence will be back to Bolivia, as he is allied to 
Ruben Costas," said to this journalist a Bolivian from La Paz, who has 
been living in Santa Cruz for several years.

Among many non-sense lies spread in Bolivia, both by the opposition and 
religious leaders (the latter have played a fundamental role in 
discrimination and diffusion of slanders campaign), could be highlighted 
that "Evo had an airplane arrested in the U.S. years ago, loaded with 
cocaine."

Personally talking to Catholic leaders of Knights Templar in Santa Cruz 
de la Sierra, this reporter asked them, well aware that was a lie: "So 
why did Evo was not arrested in the U.S., then?". The ridiculous answer 
was, "he has immunity as president of Bolivia [in U.S. ground!]."

Another spread lie is that Evo Morales owns the air company Boliviana de 
Aviación <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boliviana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n>(BoA) 
- a state company created in 2007 a year after Evo took power.

"I have been surprised that they [religious leaders] first pray and then 
they hate, what is that?" Evo asked last week. “They pray [then] kick 
poor people,” the president of Bolivia denounced, well-aware that such a 
segment is behind the dirty war of hate and lies across the country.


      Social Confusion

Leaving the demonstration "at the feet of Christ" last Monday, this 
reporter talked to some people. A couple's reaction to some of this 
journalist's observations is a hallmark of the current state of mind 
among the opposition voters in Bolivia.

After explaining the reasons why the young guys were requiring Evo 
Morales to be overthrown, this report presented some little data about 
Bolivia's economy in recent years, comparing to the years previous to 
the current president.

The couple then repeated a posture commonly seen by this author when 
talking to people by the streets of Santa Cruz de la Sierra: they 
firstly withered to later change the subject. The problem was not the 
economy, but a president being many years in power. Which is at least 
arguable, as pointed out above.

Another strong feature of these protests in Bolivia, a hallmark of Color 
Revolutions, is the spread of lies among people which is previous to the 
current mess: the scenario of social confusion based on an inversion of 
facts has been advancing long ago in the South American country.

Last Tuesday, this reporter got a WhatsApp message from a lawyer based 
out in La Paz, who works in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, too. "This is the 
beginning of strong social movements in Bolivia. (...) So starts a 
social movement, first the group manifests, later elaborate the 
ideology," he said. Which is an absurd, and another Color Revolution 
strong feature, as social movements' process is the inverse: they first 
have a direction, then they organize themselves, and fight for their 
ideals. Any movement or group without an ideal is artificial.

Fighting for something without a clear path to be pursued is ridiculous, 
leading nations victims of Color Revolutions, unavoidable to chaos, 
generally to fascist politics, a worse situation the respective nations 
used to live before such artificial movements.

There is no project by the opposition. They want the justice system, 
controlled by the current government, it is true, to be under their 
control again, not to reform it. And they aim to collapse every Morales 
administration gains.

Uncle Sam's Sharp, Cruel Claws

In 2014, Jacob Ostreicher, a Jewish businessman funded by local drug 
trafficking and the CIA disguised as a diplomatic mission to destabilize 
Bolivia, illegally, and protected by the CIA, left the South American 
country not to be arrested. Who provided Ostreicher's escape was 
"diplomat" Larry Lamont Memmott, a CIA agent operating in Bolivia.

Who is behind protests in Bolivia are dark powers, the stingy, 
destructive Bolivian elite that in the two centuries before Evo Morales, 
used to sell local natural resources to get in return Empire's crumbs - 
the U.S. deep State who is, once again, using the old puppet Bolivian 
elite as its tool for geostrategic and economic purposes.

All this seems impossible to be argued with many people in Bolivia right 
now. Their minds have been confused by the daily mainstream media's 
bombardment and religious leaders.

The current chaos, with the local economy stuck for almost 20 days, has 
no forecast to finish. Who is destroying Bolivia is not surely Cuba, nor 
Russia, nor China. But in the deeply troubled Bolivia these days, Joseph 
Goebbels's teachings reigns:  "A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie 
told a thousand times becomes the truth."

Lie, something the most terrorist Empire in history is an expert in 
spreading. And in the destruction of nations, another thing that, for so 
long, Latin America disgracefully knows very well.

It's Bolivia turn, again...

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