[Marxism] [Soliz Rada] Evo´s Errors

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Evo´s errors <http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/04/evos-errors.html>

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Andres Soliz Rada

Perhaps the biggest error by President Evo Morales resides in his belief
that all criticism of his government is aimed at damaging and weakening his
management and not, as it is in my case, at fixing errors with the aim of
strengthening it. It is true that the native oligarchy and foreign
capitalism hope to destroy this process of deepening of democracy, opened up
on December 18, 2005, and that it does not tolerate the presence of a
president that represents, in large part, those excluded by centuries of
internal colonialism.

To confuse both positions implies a lamentable political myopia.

We believe that, for the popular movement, the defeat of Evo would signify
repeating the tragedy of the oppressed country which could not defend the
spaces of national liberation already conquered.

In this way, after the first nationalisation of petroleum in 1936, the
anti-national governments of Quintanilla and Penaranda captured power. After
the patriotic regime of Villarroel, came the six period of the rosquero. The
revolution of 1952 was betrayed from within by the MNR, which opened the
path to the pro US Barriento regime
The Banzerista coup of 1971 was the foreign response to the Ovando-Torres
process, that nationalised petroleum and installed tin smelters. The timid
nationalism of the Democratic and Popular Unity (UDP) was wiped out by the
neoliberalism of Paz Estensoro, Banzer and Paz Zamora

This real life rerun of "The myth of Sisyphus" should not be repeated.

The current government needs to rectify its incoherencies in order to impede
the return of the popular resistance back to point zero.

Due to this, we say that it is inconsistant that, 15 months after reaching
Palacio Quemado, a regime that says it is anti-imperialist continues to send
troops to the Congo and Haiti, within the military programs of the United
Nations, which as we know, are the extensions of the geopolitical strategy
of North America. Let's recall that soldiers from this country participated
in the massacre of civilians in a poor neighbourhood of Puerto Prinicipe
last December 22.

It is intolerable that, in this same timeframe, the proposed Law of
Investigations of Fortunes has not been approved, which I presented in its
basic form in 1990. Meanwhile, corruption remains in the Bolivian
Administration of Highways, Service of Roadways, Service of National Taxes,
Customs and other entities, vital for society. The corruption which is
tolerated in these official spheres is intolerable.

It is incompatible to defend the Great Bolivarian Homeland whilst holding
some of the positions that MAS has inside the Constituent Assembly which
attempt to splinter the republic, such as the reconstruction of 39
indigenous nations and the reterritorialisation of Bolivia within a new
pluri-national state. This is heavenly music for the agents of eastern
separatism, who last September founded in Guayaquil – with delegates from
this Ecuadorian region and the Venezuelan state of Zulia – the
"International Confederation for Freedom and Regional Autonomy" of Latin
America, financed by petroleum companies who yearn to control important gas
and petroleum fields in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

What I have written does not imply not recognizing the enormous value of our
millenary cultures, whose best traditions should form part of the united
country that we aspire to build.

Evo needs to comprehend that he cannot govern surrounded by a closed circle
which does not respect the dignitaries of state. The fact that a "technical"
advisor has handled all the negotiations with the petroleum companies, over
the heads of the Ministers of Hydrocarbons and Presidents of YPFB
demonstrates what I have affirmed. The president has the capacity to remove
his close collaborators, but he should explain the causes of such decisions,
with the aim of not damaging the image of people who deserve respect, such
as the ex minister for mining, Guillermo Dalence or the ex consul general in
Chile, Jose Enrique Pinelo. It is inconsistent to ask the "Red Ponchos" to
take up arms (as Alvaro Garcia Linera did) and celebrate nostalgic homages
to guerilla focos, and then ask for the backing of the armed force, which,
in theory, are recognised for the fundamental role they play in national
life.

In the area of petroleum, the errors of MAS have reached an uncontrollable
level. The right wing "PODEMOS", despite the links between a number of its
parliamentarians and transnationals, has mitigated, whether for opportunist
or demagogic reasons, some of the excesses in the petroleum contracts, such
as the lack of transparent information on "recoverable costs", presented by
the petroleum companies. In this confrontation, Evo has threaten to go on
hunger strike, as well as convoking the social movements in defense of the
contracts, which due to strange devices, determines that the benefits to
YPFB decrease as production increases.

The average income for the country, with the new contracts, fluctuates
between 51% and 74% (Mauricio Medinacelli), maintaining with a few variants
the level established by Law 3058, on May 17, 2005, which implies a step
backwards in regards to the frustrated Nationalisation Decree of May 1,
2006, and is far from the 96% of rent from petroleum which, according to
Manuel Morales Olivera and Garcia Linera, had been achieved with the
aforementioned agreements, which they classified as "the harshest in the
world". What is certain is that the government would advance more if its
higher up leaders lied less.
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