[News] The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons

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(Por Atilio A. Boron) 
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  The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons

By Atilio Boron

The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons that our peoples 
and popular social and political forces must learn and record in their 
consciences forever.

Here, a brief enumeration, on the fly, and as a prelude to a more 
detailed treatment in the future.

First, no matter how much the economy is managed in an exemplary way as 
the Evo government did, growth, redistribution, flow of investments are 
guaranteed and all macro and microeconomic indicators are improved, the 
right and imperialism will never accept a government that does not serve 
its interests.

Second, we must study the manuals published by various US agencies and 
their spokesmen disguised as academics or journalists to be able to 
perceive the offensive signals in time. These writings invariably 
highlight the need to destroy the reputation of the popular leader, 
which in specialized jargon is called character assasination as a thief, 
corrupt, dictator or ignorant. This is the task entrusted to social 
communicators, self-proclaimed as “independent journalists”, who in 
favor of their quasi-monopoly control of the media drill the brains of 
the population with such defamations, accompanied, in the case at hand, 
by messages of hate directed against native peoples and the poor in general.

Third, once the above has come, it is the turn of the political 
leadership and the economic elites claiming “a change”, ending Evo’s 
“dictatorship” that, as the unpresentable Vargas Llosa wrote a few days 
ago, that is a “demagogue who wants eternalize in power. ” I suppose he 
will be toasting with champagne in Madrid seeing the images of the 
fascist hordes looting, burning, chaining journalists to a post, shaving 
a woman mayor and painting her in red and destroying the minutes of the 
last election to fulfill the gift mandate Mario and free Bolivia from an 
evil demagogue. I mention his case because it has been and is the 
immoral standard bearer of this vile attack, of this limitless felony 
that crucifies popular leaderships,

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Fourth: the “security forces” enter the scene. In this case we are 
talking about institutions controlled by numerous agencies, military and 
civil, of the United States government. They train them, arm them, do 
joint exercises and educate them politically. I had the opportunity to 
verify it when, at the invitation of Evo, I inaugurated a course on 
“Anti-imperialism” for senior officers of the three forces. On that 
occasion I was embarrassed by the degree of penetration of the most 
reactionary American slogans inherited from the Cold War era and by the 
undisputed irritation caused by the fact that an indigenous was 
president of his country. What those “security forces” did was to 
withdraw from the scene and leave the field free for the uncontrolled 
performance of the fascist hordes – such as those that acted in Ukraine, 
in Libya, in Iraq, in Syria to overthrow, or try to do so in the latter 
case, annoying leaders for the empire – and thus intimidate the 
population, the militancy and the government figures themselves. That 
is, a new socio-political figure: military coup “by omission”, letting 
the reactionary gangs, recruited and financed by the right, impose their 
law. Once the terror reigns and before the defenselessness of the 
government the outcome was inevitable.

Fifth, security and public order should never have been entrusted in 
Bolivia to institutions such as the police and the army, colonized by 
imperialism and its lackeys of the indigenous right. When the offensive 
against Evo was launched, a policy of appeasement and not responding to 
the provocations of the fascists was chosen. This served to embolden 
them and increase the bet: first, demand ballot; later, fraud and new 
elections; next, elections but without Evo (as in Brazil, without Lula); 
later, resignation of Evo; finally, given his reluctance to accept 
blackmail, sow terror with the complicity of police and military and 
force Evo to resign. From manual, all from manual. Will we learn these 
lessons?

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Translated by JRE

Atilio Boron

Atilio A. Boron is a Harvard Graduate professor of political theory at 
the University of Buenos Aires and was executive secretary of the Latin 
American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). He has published widely in 
several languages a variety of books and articles on political theory 
and philosophy, social theory, and comparative studies on the capitalist 
development in the periphery. He is an international analyst, writer and 
journalist and profoundly Latinoamerican.

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