Evo Morales Has Surpassed Us | Evo Morales nos ha sobrepasado

Editorial, El Dia:

It is surprising that, after nearly two decades in power, there are still people who describe Evo Morales merely as a union leader or as the protagonist of a conventional political administration. Even more surprising is that many continue to interpret Bolivia’s current events as simple social conflicts disconnected from his legacy.

The images of roads blocked by radicalized civilian militias and the blatant violent resistance to law enforcement are the death throes of a corporation defending its impunity.

It is incredible that, at this stage of our history, sectors of national and international public opinion continue to treat Morales as a simple “union leader” and characterize his nearly two decades in power as a “political administration,” when in reality it was a state structure devoted entirely to organized crime.

An alarming number of analysts, citizens, and politicians still question the true nature of the man. It is time to call things by their proper names: Evo Morales has built a trajectory that positions him as one of the most dangerous and successful drug traffickers in the world. He achieved what no conventional drug lord could even dream of. He fulfilled, to the letter, Pablo Escobar’s “golden dream”: capturing the machinery of the state from within through the ballot box, subverting democracy, and transforming the national territory into a fortified sanctuary for the free flow of cocaine.

This criminal project remains standing, and its goal is to stay forever. Morales has left behind a country thoroughly penetrated by drug trafficking at every institutional level. The current economic suffocation—with international reserves depleted, a shortage of foreign currency, and the imminent collapse of the energy matrix—is the direct result of having replaced the formal economy with a gigantic and invisible underground financial laundering operation that is now exacting its price.

The current unrest and the logistical blockades of cities are not demands for social redress; they are asymmetric warfare operations carried out by a fiefdom that resists oversight and uses economic sabotage as a weapon of mass extortion.

What is truly striking and concerning about this situation is the passivity of the international community. It is evident that the current Bolivian government, constrained and with economic resources at historic lows, lacks the operational and logistical capacity to confront on its own a transnational apparatus of this magnitude.

Why are international forces not intervening as they did against the state cartel of Nicolás Maduro? The network commanded by Morales is not Bolivia’s internal problem; it is a key component of the region’s criminal ecosystem, a logistical partner of Brazilian cartels and transnational money-laundering networks. Tolerating this enclave in the heart of South America is an act of willful blindness that condemns the future of the region.

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