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For several years, more than one voice has publicly warned that Bolivia is heading towards a regime inspired by the Cuban model, which has already been replicated in Venezuela and Nicaragua. However, so far, almost nothing has been done to stop this progress. On the contrary, many politicians, departmental leaders and activists of various causes have acted contrary to their nature: they have encouraged this progress, justified themselves and aligned themselves with the dictatorial project.
This adhesion is not always open and clear, but disguised, believing that in this way they can save their skin. That is why they remain silent in the face of abuses or turn a blind eye to measures approved by the MAS government, so to speak, led by Vice Presidents Evp Morales or Luis Arce. It begins with the new national political constitution, where all areas are governed by laws, decrees and bureaucratic regulations.
They all aim to achieve the same goal: to expand and consolidate government control over every activity carried out by the state apparatus and civil society. If one aspires to enter into contracts with public institutions, then obligations such as opening a bank account in a state-owned banking union are no accident; or quotas limiting the export of agricultural products.
To these two examples one could add more, including the centralization of the definition of the school curriculum (a fundamental area of civic education) and, in the most extreme cases, the subordination of the executive power of the school to all other powers of the State: the judiciary, the legislature and the public administration supervisory bodies. The extension of the term of office of magistrates is an example.
Controlling information through economic suffocation, which forces news media to close or transfer their property to individuals or companies associated with the government, is another goal of the ruling party. Tax policies and labor legislation, among others, are part of a government strategy that seeks the failure and bankruptcy not only of news media but of all private initiatives.
The ruling party does not need to resort to a revolution like the one that led Cuba to communist dictatorship in fulfilling its mission. It advances using all democratic tools, in the sight and patience of those who claim to be against democracy. The few times its progress has been blocked were the result of citizen mobilizations, like the one defended by 21F or the one that abolished a jewel of the penal code.
Perhaps it is necessary to spread more about what is happening today in Cuba, on this prison island, under the influence of a dictatorship, where the Arce government is mirrored along the lines outlined by the Morales government. This task is undertaken by Gisela Deprik, lawyer and former governor of Potosí. In his latest book, Cuba, No Rights!, Deprik describes in detail the line of the Castro brothers since the early 1950s.
Deprik’s research is illuminating, initially focused on the study of Cuban legislation, but later led to a wider work that allowed him to discover previously unknown relevant data to understand why Cuba is today a declining country in which people cannot survive, they continue to be barely able to, without enough food, not enough energy, no freedom, and no prospects for a better future.
A tortuous path marks the remarkable success of the propaganda of Cuba and its regime as a model of success. How successful could a power project that promised material equality at the cost of abolishing human and individual rights be, when more than seventy years later it only shows the poverty of the people and the decline of the country?
Bolivia is heading towards this future if the party leadership also bets on the poverty of the people, the failure of all private initiatives and absolute control over the inhabitants. Will those who now question the leadership of the country, calling themselves the opposition and democratic alternative, realize this? Can citizens who take responsibility for their own destiny own it?
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