The Non-State in its splendor | El No Estado en su esplendor

Lupe Cajias, El Deber:

This week, Bolivians resignedly contemplated the celebration of the Non-State in all its splendor. The celebration was illuminated by fires set in the lowlands that occupy 60 percent of the national territory. The toasts were sealed with the explosion of firecrackers and dynamite at the government headquarters.

Dozens of people obeyed the Non-State’s policy of setting fire to trees that hinder coca plantations, the sacred leaf that is the articulating axis of the plurinational regime. With efficiency and a sense of opportunity, men and women knew how to raid the lairs of wild jaguars, wild birds, snakes and bats, usinas and deer.

The order to convert protected areas and original community lands into wastelands and cement originated in 2006 with the inspiration of Juan Ramón Quintana and his preaching against imperial environmentalism. In 2011, the most significant phase was completed (with the support of the Brazilian Luis Ignacio da Silva and his Workers’ Party (PT) to split the lungs of Bolivia in two. The strangulation of the TIPNIS revealed the true meaning of Mother Earth and the Live good.

With the new government, that vision is strengthened with a huge apparatus from public offices. Land seizures are sponsored by INRA, by the Vice Ministry of Lands, by the ABT. Ramiro Guerrero, Edmundo Novillo, and the versatile Elías Tejerina Frías and his family are one of the key pieces. That dark character who went from vice minister to overwhelming and then to businessman signing contracts with EMAPA and others. Matters that the Vice Ministry of Transparency will never investigate, so transparent that it does not exist.

Luis Arce appointed a lawyer with no background related to the environment responsible for the care of the forests. On the contrary, Luis Roberto Flores Orellana was related to a controversial drug trafficking case. When a journalist asked him to give his version, he asked him to obtain a judicial summon, while he recorded the communicator. It seems that he is a professional who has not figured out how journalistic interviews are done. He assures that he fights for the people.

In the seat of government, the feudal lords of gold and mercury prepared a street theater. They want to take over the lands of the natives who are not Aymara and Quechua; They want to burn the parks and the mountains; use his alchemy to turn crystalline rivers into yellow streams; take ownership of air and water sources for future generations,

Anyone who opposes their plans is subjected to punishment: children who want to go to school, journalists who cover news, legal employees who must punch their cards, industrialists who try to guarantee food production, passers-by.

They littered the parks with their garbage, left remains of chicken and French fries on the avenues, and affected flower pots and roundabouts. If they don’t care about the streams, how are they going to be moved by the kantutas. That’s what sweepers are for. The feudal lords are busy with their alchemies.

For too long, the National Protected Areas Service has been in the hands of people who have no regard for Nature. Abel Mamani, that official who never defended a single plaza in El Alto or cared for the fauna, managed to disrupt the institutions. Each director is more ignorant than the last. They only serve to create positions for their illiterate relatives.

The Non-State does not control much of the national territory. Bolivians who plan internal tourism trips cannot be sure of reaching Chapare, San Matías, national parks with international borders, Desaguadero, San Julián, Guanay, Tipuani, communities in northern Potosí.

Luis Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca will go down in history as the leaders who committed suicide to the country that once had blue skies and today is the third most polluted.

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