Former Mayor, Minister of State, and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia
9 December 2021
Obituary of a death foretold
The time is coming. The obituary of the MAS of Evo Morales has already been written by none other than one of the theoretical fathers of the “process of change”: Raúl Prada.
A man of the left, a respected intellectual, he now reveals to us that he is a man of ethical principles and political honesty.
In a document that could easily have also been signed by Filemón Escobar, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz or Juan Lechín Oquendo, “Chato” Prada titles “The funeral march” to the penultimate political death rattle of the MAS: a march of llunk’us (todies), of a misgovernment that marches to support itself and for the umpteenth time to attack La Paz with the threat of another “siege”, similar to the one that took away its oxygen in the middle of the pandemic.
“When there is nothing left inside, even when what was shown was a pure pose, appearances by exposure of simulations, one resorts to desperately insist on the political theater, even if it does not offer promising results, for the collapse and implosion have reached the crushing level of apocalyptic collapse and spread.
When you have nothing to offer, except what has been left as a dramatic inheritance: the death of the process of change, the dismantling of the Constitution, the destruction of the economy, education, and health, apart from having enriched the Palace environment, converted into rentier bourgeoisie, opts for the show business of a government mounted march, with the eloquent mass of llunk’us (toadies), increasingly similar to a funeral, to bury the political corpse, the despotic leader, and a conglomerate of corporations and labor unions of corruption, pretending to be a party or movement…”
There couldn’t be a more sincere and lapidary judgment than that.
The great assault of Evo Morales’ MAS is hidden in plain sight. The 2022 Budget is nothing less than a justification to cover up the final and definitive corruption of the MAS, before closing suitcases and fleeing to their “socialist paradises” where they will enjoy their ill-gotten wealth.
In addition to million-dollar “investments” in anti-economic companies, the inflation of the payroll of public employees (militants, by statute) has tripled to half a million, of which there are 300,000 new lazybones. Every day [the State] spends $ 21 million on its salaries and three times that on its “operating” expenses. How many of them are “ghosts”?
To prove a point. The former municipal administration of Santa Cruz, coexisting with the MAS during its long past administration, apparently hid a fictitious payroll of 800 public officials, for more than ten years, generating spurious rents estimated at 48 million bolivianos per year or more than 68 million dollars in ten years, for their political leadership.
Only comparable with Cuba or North Korea, the economist Antonio Saravia has estimated that the 2022 Plurinational State Budget absorbs 95% of the Gross Domestic Product (the sum of ALL the goods and services produced in the economy by all of us). Comparatively, Chile absorbs 37% of its GDP, the US 35%, and the average in South America should be below 40%, comparable with the Nordic countries). The State monopoly is complete and is at the disposal and usufruct of the MAS.
This means that the Bolivian economy is ALREADY socialist! The Government absorbs ALL the GDP, including its monopoly access to borrow our retirement contributions from the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) and the already starving reserves of the Central Bank, which it will never repay. While it has already lost almost all possibility of external credit and it only remains to squeeze the citizens with higher taxes through “cursed laws” and other mechanisms. The country at the service of the party.
Its death is already announced by its own children. But as a friend told me: “I do not fear death, but dying.” To a long agony. How much longer will Evo’s MAS agonize, ruling with hatred and resentment, behind people’s backs and looting our heritage?
Source: https://eldeber.com.bo/opinion/obituario-de-una-muerte-anunciada_258115
