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<h1 class="reader-title">The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons</h1>
By Atilio Boron</div>
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<p>The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons
that our peoples and popular social and political forces
must learn and record in their consciences forever.</p>
<p>Here, a brief enumeration, on the fly, and as a prelude
to a more detailed treatment in the future.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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,</p>
<p><a
href="https://orinocotribune.com/time-of-coup-offensive-in-bolivia?RELATEDCONTENT"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RELATED
CONTENT: Time of Coup Offensive in Bolivia</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
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<p>Translated by JRE</p>
<span>Atilio Boron </span>
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<p>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.</p>
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