Pagina Siete reports:

[The former ally of current government, the political party] Without Fear Movement [MSM] issued a statement on the recent social developments, which points out that conflicts are caused and promoted by the Government of President Evo Morales.

The document – entitled “the origin of social conflicts is the plan of repositioning the authoritarian, populist and demagogic Government plan” – points out that the three main problems facing the country (Protest-march in defense of Isiboro Sécure National Park and indigenous territory [TIPNIS]; protests of the Central Obrera Boliviana [COB, main worker’s union]; and mobilization of medical doctors) have been generated by the ruling party.

“It is the Government with its Decree 1126, demagogic and in an improvised way, expanded to eight hours the work-day of health workers;” “is the Government which aborted the dialogue with the COB with its wage Decree of May 1st, and it is the Government that after promoting the March of coca growers against the TIPNIS, approved the illegal and unconstitutional law 222 of ‘subsequent consultation’ to build no matter what, the road by the OAS”, says the political pronouncement.

According to the analysis of the party led by Juan del Granado, these errors originate in the loss of popularity of the Government during 2011, which forced them to seize the initiative, but on the basis of “authoritarian, populist and demagogic action”.

The MSM believes that the “repositioning plan” arose from the social Summit organized by the Government in December and January in Cochabamba.

“(Of the Summit) is not only the Decree against the health doctors, but the decision to divide the COB and return to the fray with the destructive road of the TIPNIS.” “It’s a shortsighted vision, short term, oblivious to the reality, what people are thinking and of electoral insight which has as its unique perspective, the “reposition” of the ailing image of the only candidate MAS by 2014: that of Mr Evo Morales”.

Doctors and public health workers develop a general and indefinite, strike that has been accompanied by voluntary fasting of hundreds of affiliates, in addition to blockades of streets and roads in five departments of the country for more than one month.

In parallel to this conflict against the consultation process that the ruling party develops inside the TIPNIS, some 500 indigenous March from Trinidad to La Paz. Finally, the COB has called a general strike and protests and street marches.

On the subject of the sector, President Morales said Friday that a new “social Summit” will be convened to discuss the issue of the crisis of the State health and that “was suspended” the decree which increases six to eight-hour workday for State medical personnel.

Doctors rejected the idea and insist that the Decree should be repealed altogether.

The document produced by the opposing party [MSM] establishes that the Government and the ruling party are solely responsible for “serious”social conflicts that afflict the country and generate a harm to the population. In addition, it argues that “the sole responsibility of the Government is not only because it lacks the capacity to resolve the conflict, but because the same Government is the one that has created the conflicts”.

http://www.paginasiete.bo/2012-05-07/Nacional/NoticiaPrincipal/2Nac00107.aspx

I do believe that the MSM with Del Granado and “Filipo” Filemon Escobar, who were the political ideologuers and brains that made current president win the presidential election, are now acid critics of current government’s failure to govern this unfortunate country… unfortunate for the type of politicians and ideologies that keeps us in the dark while our neighbors and other countries worldwide prosper in this 21st century.