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<h1 class="reader-title">In Bolivia as in Palestine</h1>
By Carlos Aznarez, on November 20, 2019</div>
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<p>Bolivia is resembling Palestine these days. For
many reasons it is important to make this
comparison now as the horror of the installation
of a brutal dictatorship is unfolding in that
South American country.<span id="more-11236"></span></p>
<p>First and foremost these are two native peoples
who not only face an implacable enemy but also a
religious factor that is among the most lethal
weapons that could be used against them. In the
name of a defamatory and unhealthy version of
true Christianity, the Bolivian oligarchy in
true Nazi style is promoting “racial purity”, by
using the Bible as its mandate, including
brainwashing being applied by the Pentecostal
churches to co-opt the poorest layers of society
and the different and numerous original
ethnicities that it considers inferior.</p>
<p>If these tricks don’t work, plan B is rolled
out to show them hatred by mocking and
humiliating them in every circumstance and
destroying the most precious symbols of their
identity. Burning of their wiphalas for example,
despising and degrading Bolivian indigenous
women or cursing the indigenous people as a
whole as Camacho, Mesa and the de facto
president have done, are concrete elements of
punishment to those who look different.</p>
<p>This is the same script Zionism wields against
the Palestinian people. It is the idea of ethnic
cleansing, by the way of distorting the reading
of a history where fundamental data is omitted
to disguise that when the invaders arrived, they
found the indigenous people who had lived there
for centuries clinging to their territory with
the same strength and determination that they do
in the present. The Zionist entity is, like the
stateless Bolivian oligarchy, racist and violent
to the core, one in the name of Jehovah and the
other using an invented God to justify its
crimes.</p>
<p>This Bolivian dictatorship of today, which
orders its military and police to repress the
indigenous-peasant people, workers and students
as they did in the most sinister days of the
Latin American decade of the 60s and 70s, are
shooting from helicopters or tanks, torturing
and murdering. This also has class hatred in it
against those who, thanks to a popular and
revolutionary government, could feel included
for the first time, treated as equals, empowered
and entwined with the rest of the population.</p>
<p>In Palestine, the occupier not only seizes
territories, expelling the native inhabitants,
demolishing their homes and destroying their
crops, but also manifests a deep hatred towards
those who, in spite of continuous persecution
and massacres, maintain a profile of political
and above all cultural resistance. The occupants
act as an oppressive class, being in reality an
elite of new riches nourished by the wealth that
others like them send from the diaspora. The
objective of these voluntary contributions,
sometimes under pressure, is to achieve, among
other projects of economic opulence, to grease
the machinery that carries out the continuous
looting of Palestine and through a gigantic war
apparatus, to militarize that territory in order
to harass the rest of the Arab world from there.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what can we say about the
resistance to the oppressor in Bolivia when
every day we are seeing the next Tupaj Katari,
Bartolina Sisa and Evo Morales, heroic scenes in
which the masses guided by their natural
organizations using all the methods of struggle,
but making the main weight fall on the peaceful
resistance to which the indigenous peoples have
been accustomed to using for centuries. An
important aspect of this strategy is the
blockade of the big cities to make the maximum
weight felt by those who sow, produce,
manufacture and distribute food. Or at the same
time they generate massive mobilizations,
occupying the streets, the highways and the
diverse territories, demanding that those who
were not elected fall and that the man who
socialized the leadership with his comrades in
so many struggles re-govern again. The response
of the parasites of the bourgeoisie and the
affluent classes to the slightest hint of
shortage consists of ordering their uniformed
dogs to go hunting.</p>
<p>As in Bolivia, the Palestinian people have not
stopped fighting and mobilizing, not a single
day since the occupation and the Nakba it
brought with it more than seven decades ago, and
in that sense the peaceful “return marches” for
more than a year now led by the people of Gaza
or the continuous actions of protest and
resistance in the West Bank, become landmarks of
territorial vindication where the heroism of its
protagonists are shown, confronting with stones
heavily armed snipers in Palestine, or police
and military blinded by hatred, gasifying men,
women and children to the point of asphyxiation,
or machine-gunning them, in the Bolivian El Alto
or Cochabamba. In both confrontations, identity
symbols such as the multicolored wiphala of the
indigenous peoples of Abya Yala or the
four-colored Palestinian insignia are proudly
raised by those who know that the two synthesize
much more than a banner, which must be defended
with life if necessary.</p>
<p>Finally, a note on how the world reacts to
these ethnic cleansings. The governments, almost
all of them, with the exception of revolutionary
Cuba and Venezuela (to which we can add,
especially in the case of Bolivia, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Uruguay, the future Argentine
government and Third World countries) keep quiet
or close ranks supporting the murderers.</p>
<p>In the field of international intellectuals and
academics, in the face of conflicts of such
magnitude as those occurring today in Latin
America and the Middle East, there are also two
distinct perspectives. An important minority
that is aligned with the Bolivarian and Cuban
revolutions that is clear on who the main enemy
is and do not hesitate to show their support for
both peoples who are being subjugated.
Unfortunately, however, there are some dissonant
expressions.</p>
<p>They are the ones who are on the lookout to
mark and emphasize what is wrong with the
leadership or the peoples, and throw themselves
into corrosive criticism. They are the ones who
do not use the same power, in the midst of a
massacre here or there, to denounce and confront
with the same force the criminals linked to the
Empire.</p>
<p>We see it over and over again when it comes to
Palestine, when tired of turning the other
cheek, there were and there are sectors of the
resistance that decided to combine peaceful
methods of struggle with revolutionary violence.
Immediately the voices of the eternal “good
thinkers” (many confessed “progressive” or
“left”) come out to pontificate: “this is not
how it is done”, “this plays into the hands of
the enemy”.</p>
<p>And without further ado, they continued or
continue to give lectures on this at various
universities, while those who fortunately do not
listen to them, give themselves completely to
defend their territories.</p>
<p>Now, in Bolivia, the same thing is happening,
this intellectuality that calls itself “in
solidarity” or even “anti-imperialist”, is very
concerned about discovering the “magnitude” of
the “errors” of Evo Morales and they do it, once
again from the comfort of the people who
overthrew Evo not because of their errors but
because of their thousands of successes and who
are now trying to take the Bolivian people back
to the Middle Ages.</p>
<p>It is a pity that not even in such limited
moments, where the Empire, capital and
patriarchy are on one side and those who
challenge it on the other, can they close ranks
to give a common sense response to such enemies.
But since these are not times of speeches,
advice or omnipotent attitudes, but rather times
of action and concrete solidarity, we will
continue in the struggle and those who do not
understand that will be left on the road.</p>
<p>Source: <a
href="http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2019/11/20/en-bolivia-como-en-palestina-por-carlos-aznarez/">Resumen
Latinoamericano</a>, translation North
American bureau</p>
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