Re: Re: Re: Milosevic out?

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a [PEN-L:2740] Re: Re: Milosevic out?,
el 6 Oct 00, a las 15:29, Jim Devine dijo:

> I wrote:
> > > The protestors -- who seemed to have come from all major classes,
> > > unlike previous anti-Milosevic waves, which were primarily based
> > > in the urban middle classes -- were fighting the Yugoslav
> > > government, led by a man who had committed the ultimate sin among
> > > nationalists, i.e., losing a war.
>
> Néstor writes:
> >A gross mistake and a gross underrating of the ability of the masses
> >to understand when they lose a war because they cannot do otherwise.
>
> In this specific case, the people seem to have blamed Milosevic
> (correctly or not, but they were admittedly encouraged to do so by the
> US & NATO, etc.)
>

Sorry to contradict you, dear Jim. The same could be said of the mob
who gathered at the Murillo Square of La Paz, in Bolivia, in 1943,
and hang President Gualberto Villaroel, whose only crime had been to
behave gallantly during the Chaco War, express his intention to put
an end to Indian servitude, and explain that Bolivia needed to gain
control of its own resources. Shame on them, the Bolivian "Left" was
among the most rabid (in any sense you like) leaders of this
"revolution".

But the Bolivian people was forced to sit and silently watch the
events at the Capital City. Some observed from the pits of the tin
mines, others from the vast fields of the large estates, still others
from the patch of land that they did not own. They were not happy,
not at all.

Shall we see Milosevic dangling from a street lamp? We _saw_
Villarroel. And some still say that Villarroel was a Fascist...



> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>



Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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