FALSE LEADERS, MUD IDOLS | FALSOS LÍDERES, ÍDOLOS DE BARRO

Editorial, El Dia:

They have just inaugurated a monument to the former mining leader and former parliamentarian, Filemón Escobar in the city of Catavi Potosí and social networks were quickly filled with praise, extolling the “great leader”, the “social fighter”, the “champion of transformation”. and a series of praises worthy of a saint.

The most vivid memory there is of Filemón Escóbar is lamenting the monstrosity that he had created, since he was the main person responsible for Evo Morales becoming a national leader and that he had become president. He trained him, advised him, gave him a theoretical basis, indoctrinated him, and trained him in all the strategies of struggle, including blocking highways for months, encircling cities, committing terrorist acts, and even murder.

Filemón Escobar always knew about the links that Evo Morales and the cocalero movement had with drug traffickers, he knew perfectly well that 90 percent of the coca in the Chapare is destined for drug trafficking and even so, he used the “sacred leaf” and trafficking of drugs as instruments of liberation, also fully knowing that the cocaine business never benefits the weakest and that the biggest profits remain with the “dealers” in New York, Berlin or Chicago.

Filemón Escobar, like all the leaders of his class, who are nothing more than political mobsters, not only distort reality at their convenience with a spurious matter like drugs (even Evo Morales says he is disgusted with what is happening), but they also alienated the culture and mentality of all the towns, mining districts and communities where these ideological perverts settled, who boast of their great intellectual solvency which, however, does not allow them to see the damage they have done to the country.

History is full of evidence of the splendor of Potosí, of vast regions of Chuquisaca, Oruro and other mining areas where the rentier mentality spread, the statist paradigm and, above all, the poison of socialism and revolution, which have converted to messianism. and to caudillismo in the perverse formulas of domination of millions of peasants, indigenous people and workers who dream of the redemption that these freeloaders will provide them.

Unfortunately there are many who still believe in these evildoers. Those who get tired of them, those who stop believing in their false promises, abandon their lands and go to Santa Cruz, Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo, where they become owners, where they become aware that they can be masters of their destiny, where they discover their true potential as farmers, merchants, artisans and industrialists. They find freedom, which is nothing other than the absence of obstacles and conditions placed by the state and its accomplices, all those who have the veneer of revolutionaries and who, unfortunately, also want to transfer their destructive power to the plains, just as they did in the Chapare.

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