The cries of the wolf | Los lamentos del lobo

Manfredo Kempff, El Deber:

If we did not know Evo Morales, many of us would be dismayed by his lamentations or even some of us would start crying. He speaks from his radio Kawsachum Coca, in his Sunday program, and leaves the impression that an honest and inexperienced, as well as upright citizen, has been a victim of deception by groups of criminals who torment him, who betray him and who abuse his innocence. This is enough to die of laughter. If it were not that the fate of the country, at least democracy, was at stake, we would laugh at a scoundrel who lies blatantly (lying has been his trademark) and who leaves the impression that he is beginning to rave.

The loss of power can cause alienation in a person. It can cause a brain earthquake. Examples abound. Helplessness in the face of the impossibility of recovering something that is believed to be one’s own leads to the worst extremes, sometimes even suicide. That also happens with love disappointments. This is what we are seeing with Evo Morales, who surprises us every time with fantasies or regrets. One day he is full of euphoria and optimism, announcing upcoming victories; but the next day, those around him turn out to be responsible for the mistakes and traitors sold to imperialism. He has even imagined a “black hand” that wants to end his life. These were the last years of Hitler, who went from explosive euphoria to the deepest depression. And to look for culprits to take them to the firing squad.

Now Morales wants to tighten the screws on the Constitutional Court, with all the right in the world. These robes are scoundrels without the slightest doubt and we must get them out. Constitutionally, their rulings ceased to be valid on December 31 at midnight, whatever the Government says. But the original sin of the terrible judges we have today is due to the fact that he and his advisors imposed crazy judicial elections before choosing the most meritorious judges, as is done all over the world.

So his phobia against the current judiciary is not because Morales has become reasonable, but simply because the Constitutional Court has interfered with his long-awaited presidential candidacy. Have you already forgotten that that same Court, which he imposed between roosters and midnight, was the one that prevaricated to circumvent the 21-F referendum and pave the way for his fourth consecutive election, based on the absurdity that the indefinite candidacy Was a “human right”? Now that the Constitutional Court obeys a different master, denies that this “human right” exists and Morales, resentful, mobilizes his janissaries to subdue those ungrateful and “sell-out” magistrates. His anger must be limitless.

We must be very careful that “Evo” wants to set the country on fire to achieve his goal. For him to send his people to Sucre with the mandate to change the ruling of the Constitutional Court is to provoke an insurrection. As what he intends to do in the rest of the departments of the country is sedition, starting with Santa Cruz, which already wants to see it burn or at least blocked on all sides. That smells like a real coup, not the little coup that in 2019 he invented to escape. That is his method when he is not in power. Morales already wanted to overthrow Banzer without success, he participated in the fall of Sánchez de Lozada, and of course he caused Mesa’s resignation. He now wants Arce’s head, which would be his third victim. The wolf who laments so much, the innocent wolf cub, is capable of the worst actions.

How is it possible that the former president claims that he did not know who Luis Arce Catacora was, until now that he has been told? Nothing about his star minister who accompanied him for 14 years? The things that happen in Bolivia are laughable, if it weren’t for the fact that the country’s destiny is at stake. We are surrounded by loose-cannons. Evo Morales complains that “little Lucho” would have been an atrocious neoliberal, a sneaky traitor, who served Paz Estenssoro, Paz Zamora, Banzer, Tuto and Mesa. But of course! That’s just how it was! If he was a common public employee. Where does “Evo” think his economy minister appeared from? From the sky? Didn’t he know that he had also belonged to PS-1? This man, who is “more alive than a squirrel” in the words of a writer, wouldn’t he know where each of his ministers came from? That is just a mere desire to complain about; he is a worthy representative of the “Bolivian lament.”

The days that are approaching are not a good omen. Let’s hope that, at least, the proximity of Carnival will moderate the bellicose spirits that have taken hold throughout the country.

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