Difficult to get out of the economic crisis, even harder to get out of the moral crisis | Difícil salir de la crisis económica, más difícil salir de la crisis moral

By Sayuri Loza, Eju,tv:

Mamani sleeps (…) meanwhile other Mamanis have to find a way to stretch the money that no longer suffices

Remedios Loza (+) and MAS deputy Zulay Mamani (right). / Photo: Sayuri Loza

When my mother ran for a congressional seat in 1989, she took her post very seriously because she had a triple challenge to prove herself: as a woman, as an Aymara, and as someone who wore polleras. Never before had a woman of her condition occupied a parliamentary seat.

When she won, her detractors said that this chola, who had barely completed primary school, would not be capable of being a legislator. Instead of playing the victim and whining, my mother decided to silence them through her actions. Every day she read all the newspapers to stay up to date with the country, analyzed every law sent by the executive, and when she became president of the Women’s Committee, she opened the office to all women and assisted them with lawyers paid out of her own pocket.

Today, more than 30 years later, Zulay Mamani has nothing to prove—except enjoying the sweet perks of power. Her pollera meant nothing more than an advantage at election time, because MAS likes to appear diverse, and a “cholita” deputy serves that discourse. That said, she has to be submissive; perhaps that is why it doesn’t bother them that she is so sleepy.

Mamani sleeps, and when they wake her up she smiles somewhat embarrassed. She knows how to lie like other politicians, she denies like the rest. Meanwhile, other Mamanis have to find a way to stretch the money that no longer suffices, while new ones promise they will be different, and still others lump them in the same basket as Zulay, saying that the colla is like that: lazy and corrupt (Tongo must be very colla).

It will be very difficult to get out of the economic crisis, but it will be even harder to get out of the moral crisis.

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