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<h1 class="reader-title">"It's Now or Never": Bolivian Elite
Destroying the Country</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">Edu Montesanti - November 7,
2019<br>
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<p>To the Bolivian upper classes, President Evo Morales has
to resign even if forced by extreme violence, or through a
civil war.</p>
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<p>"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. </p>
<p>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."</p>
<h3>Violence, Our Daily Bread</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Fury without Rationality</h3>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Last Monday evening, the biggest demonstration against
President Evo Morales since the elections on Oct. 20,
took place in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. </p>
<p>"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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>There are other features in these protests is in
Bolivia, clearly pointing to a Color Revolution. </p>
<h3>Paying for Demonstrators </h3>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Camacho has <a
href="https://www.primeralinea.info/presidente-del-comite-pro-santa-cruz-financio-la-quema-del-ted/"
target="_blank">recognized </a>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.</p>
<p>The businessman also <a
href="https://www.primeralinea.info/presidente-del-comite-pro-santa-cruz-financio-la-quema-del-ted/"
target="_blank">speaks out</a> 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.</p>
<h3>U.S.-Backed Groups</h3>
<p>Recent revelations point to a U.S.-backed plan of
shaking the nation. The Radio Education Network of
Bolivia (Erbol) has released <a
href="https://erbol.com.bo/nacional/surgen-16-audios-que-vinculan-c%C3%ADvicos-exmilitares-y-eeuu-en-planes-de-agitaci%C3%B3n"
target="_blank">16 audios</a>, which uncover talks
between U.S. officials, Bolivian opponents, and former
military.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>(...) 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.</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p>An attack against the Cuban Embassy in Bolivia has also
been planned.</p>
<p>All the audios, which include the three-part plan to
achieve a regime change in Bolivia, can be read <a
href="https://bbackdoors.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/us-hands-against-bolivia-part-i/"
target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Touching Emotion through the Mainstream Media of
Propaganda </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Fighting the Wrong Enemy</h3>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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 (<a
href="http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/144015-bolivia/"
target="_blank">Pravda reported</a>).</p>
<p>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!".</p>
<p>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." </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="https://www.fidh.org/es/region/americas/bolivia/El-Comite-Civico-pro-Santa-Cruz"
target="_blank">Open Letter</a>). </p>
<p>Camacho is 40 years old; he and his family are part of
<a
href="http://www.nacionalseguros.com.bo/grupo-nacional-vida/quienes-somos"
target="_blank">Grupo Empresarial de Inversiones
Nacional Vida S.A</a>., 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. </p>
<p>Sergas owes <a
href="https://www.primeralinea.info/camacho-promueve-el-paro-para-volver-a-aduenarse-del-negocio-del-gas-en-santa-cruz/"
target="_blank">20 million de bolivianos</a>
(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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>If the planned coup succeeds in Bolivia, this country
will surely have the same fate as Brazil, economically
and politically saying.</p>
<h3>A Long Process Based on Misinformation and Hate</h3>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>Cochabamba's Lawmaker Norma Pierola has been prosecuted
for racism for <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplCxVXDFTA"
target="_blank">not greeting</a> 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.</p>
<p>At that time, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Governor Ruben
Costas <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/499026233847716/photos/a.499029067180766/636260846790920/?type=1&theater"
target="_blank">called</a> indigenous people "dumb and
stupid," so rekindling the fire of deep racism that used
to shame Bolivia in the years previous to Evo Morales.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<p>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." </p>
<p>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!]." </p>
<p>Another spread lie is that Evo Morales owns the air
company <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boliviana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n"
target="_blank">Boliviana de Aviación </a>(BoA) - a
state company created in 2007 a year after Evo took
power.</p>
<p>"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.</p>
<h3>Social Confusion</h3>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Uncle Sam's Sharp, Cruel Claws</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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." </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>It's Bolivia turn, again...</p>
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