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| Den feminina "Pinochet", Jaenine Añez och hennes brorson som greps med 450 kilo kokain i Matto Groso, Brasilien. |
”Bolivia och en statskupp”
är rubriken på en analys av den bolivianska statskuppen skriven av Victor
Baez, vice generalsekreterare för Trade Union Confederation (ITUC),
med säte i Bryssel och som representerar
175 miljoner medlemmar i hela världen, bland dem svenska LO:s.
Jag rekommenderar starkt Baez´ krönika, inte bara för att han utan att
tveka fördömer statskuppen och karaktäriserar den just för vad den är. Utan även
för att han starkt kritiserar EU:s roll som i praktiken är ett erkännande för
att genomför ni en statskupp mot
vänsterregeringar som envisas med att själva bestämma över sina naturresurser
så är ger vi vårt erkännande!
Vad spelar det sedan för roll om EU och dess medlemsstaters ambassader i
La Paz utfärdar kommunikéer eller springer omkring bland den störtade regeringens
anhängare för att övertyga dessa om att ”delta i en dialog” med fascisterna och
de religiösa fundamentalistiska kuppmakarna i det ockuperade presidentpalatset
om statskuppen är ett faktum?
VICTOR BAEZ har jag träffat vid ett
flertal tillfällen. Först 2001 och 2002 i hans hemland Paraguay och därefter
när han anlände till Honduras efter den militära statskuppen 2009 för att här,
direkt på plats för våldtagningen av det honduranska folket uttala sitt
fördömande mot mordorgien bland annat på fackliga och sociala ledare, precis
som i Bolivia en konsekvens av den USA-stödda statskuppen.
Dick Emanuelsson
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Bolivia and a coup
By Victor Baez Mosqueira,
Resumen Latinoamericano, December 20, 2019.
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| Victor Baez. FOTO: DICK E. |
A dangerous precedent is settling in the international
community: the lack of unanimous condemnation and firm against coups. Worse,
tested arguments to justify try, like an article that says that the president
which made him the hit "crossed the red line" and other niceties like
that. The Bolivian case is just a sample.
Who actually passed the
red stripe peaceful and democratic coexistence were those who thought,
designed, supported, executed and approved the coup, inside and outside
Bolivia.
Occurred in that country
a coup which combined street violence, police mutiny, military complicity to
the "order" of resignation to a president still exercising his
mandate from previous elections and had ordered to redo the recent elections,
the OAS which discredit handled without evidence to support subsequently clear
the alleged abnormalities. The final report of the inter-American
organization left more questions than answers, according to many analysts,
confirming that behind all were also unfavorable international interests to
democracy.
In that sense, unsurprisingly
the position of the government of Trump immediately recognize the government of
a president who did not even have a (a) civilian who will impose the
presidential sash. Thus, someone whose party won only 4 percent of the
vote in the elections on October 20, happened to occupy the ownership of the
executive, defending his assault on office blood and fire. Yes, with cost
lives.
What does call increasing
attention is the position of the European Union, once renowned for its sleek
position of defending democracy. A few hours consummate the coup, we saw
his representative in Bolivia saying he was already working with the new
government and called for dialogue.
We are not against
dialogue, but you can call such sectors resisting the coup while the de facto
government is killing, imprisoning and threatening his people?
That position in Bolivia
is very similar to that of the EU in Colombia, where demonstrations against the
government of Duque called for a yes conversation as well as Lee- even a
dialogue. This proposal was immediately supported by embassies of EU countries. Meanwhile, Duke still repressing the people on the streets and
did not take into account one of the claims of those who were protesting in the
streets for several days.
There is also confirmation
that the EU representative in Chile runs the tents of protesters, calling for
dialogue while there are allegations of torture who come to protest, there are
wounded and even many people who blew eyes. In these conditions, who serves this
position "Dialogue" of the EU? It is
clear that Donald Trump, the fascist right and the neoliberal model.
Dialogue, ladies and
gentlemen EU is not an end, should be a means to make things better, not to
keep situations of chronic injustice, much less to tend to the regression of
societies.
Evo Morales resigned to
death threats against family members, ministers and members of the MAS by
groups of fascist shock. The de facto government never sent to investigate the
bully of the Santa Cruz Youth Union who shot five people from the Plan 3000. No
looting of the Municipality of Vinto and vexation of its mayor investigated. Neither
the burning of the houses of the governors of Potosi and Chuquisaca or house
former president of Deputies, Borda, or the kidnapping of relatives or looting
the houses of parliamentarians from the MAS and many are investigated other
outrages .
Yes, Mrs. Jeanine Añez exempted the Armed Forces of criminal
responsibility in the repression of demonstrators, ie gave them license to
injure, maul and kill and threatened the media with charges of sedition,
expelled foreign correspondents and closed signs international Telesur and
Russia Today. It also allowed civilian
shock troops detain people linked to the MAS.
It is abundantly clear who "crossed the red line". And it
was not Evo. Among the reasons for the coup, according to the same
president, was the willingness of his government to use the vast deposits of
the Bolivian lithium to further improve the living standards of the population,
not privatizing them, but maintaining sovereignty over them and exploiting them
in association with those who have been awarded in clear procedures. According to account Morales, his government was doing that with
partners from China and Germany. They had obviously been left out, because they neither
submitted, American multinational companies.
International indifference to the fourth coup in the XXI century is
successful in Latin America (Honduras 2009, Paraguay 2012, Brazil 2016, Bolivia
2019) should be cause for reflection and should call us to think about the role
of international organizations and make reforms needed to prevent encourage or
turn a blind eye to the relentless advance of fascist and violent, misogynistic
right, homophobic and racist.
It was a stroke of Bolivia and must be condemned as such. It not so
weakens democracy and makes it very vulnerable to the power groups. If it
continues to seek arguments to justify the breaks in the institutional life of
the country or if used euphemisms instead of calling them by their real name,
the pendulum is even more inclined to authoritarianism we thought we had
overcome in the region, especially in times that large corporations
increasingly more pressure to have totally loose hands in the spoliation of
resources. This article has-been
translated from Spanish.
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