16 January 2022
IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO OVERTHROW A DICTATOR
A shadow of hopelessness covers the country. Luis Arce, being a small-time leader, heads a dictatorship tougher than that of Evo Morales, and despite the struggles within the Government and the MAS for power quotas in the cabinet and in state-owned companies, the democratic feat of October 2019 seems unrepeatable in the short term.
There are four long years to go before the next elections, enough time to put an end to the opposition in inquisitorial trials and to set up another fraud that will keep them in power in perpetuity.
THE MASTER OF THIS MODEL
The master of fraud, the extermination of the opposition, and the trampling of human rights is called Vladimir Putin, President of Russia since 1999 and quite possibly until 2036 when he will be 83 years old.
The latest blow to Russian democracy was the closure less than a month ago of the Memorial Center that was fighting for the release of political prisoners.
COMMUNISM FELL, BUT THE DICTATORSHIP CONTINUES
After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the global irradiation of the democratic system was expected. But then Putin arrived and reversed the situation.
“Russia is like the USSR. The difference is that, instead of the communist old hags, we have two dozen millionaires at the helm,” the exiled opposition member Vladimir Osechkin explained clearly to EFE.
And the same thing has happened in Russia’s backyard, in the 15 republics that became independent from the USSR but remain in Putin’s orbit, except for two: Georgia and Ukraine.
THE PINK AND ORANGE REVOLUTIONS
In 2003, the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, initiated the transformations that thousands of protesters demanded of him in the streets and in Parliament, which had been occupied by young people who carried roses instead of guns.
Months later, another revolution broke out, the orange one in Ukraine that ended with the annulment of the fraudulent elections that had given victory to Viktor Yanukovych.
However, Yanukovych was appointed Prime Minister until he won the presidential elections in 2010 and submitted as he was to Putin, he refused to sign an agreement with the European Union. This led to an unexpected and huge popular uprising in Kyiv, the capital, in 2014, which ended with Yanukovych’s escape to Moscow.
PUTIN’S VIOLENT REVENGE
That second revolution cost Ukraine the loss of Crimea, invaded and annexed by Putin’s army, and the promotion in the country’s southeast of all kinds of pro-Russian and pro-Kyiv independence actions.
Not satisfied, Putin threatens to invade all of Ukraine, which has no defense capacity against the Russians and depends on the failed negotiations between Putin and the European Union and the United States so far.
NO MORE COLOR REVOLUTIONS
A few days ago, at the request of dictator Tokayev, Putin invaded Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, with 2,000 troops and tanks, where he put out the fire of a revolution triggered by the increase in gas prices.
The Russian intervention left 160 dead and about a thousand arrested. A massacre justified by the world “left” for the alleged existence of a coup d’État.
THE FRAUDS OF 2020
As in Bolivia, electoral fraud to favor Putin’s friends has been the reason for two other revolutionary outbursts in 2020.
In Kyrgyzstan, a bloodbath was avoided thanks to the resignation of President Boronov, who wanted to be re-elected in fraudulent elections.
Instead, in Belarus, with the open intervention of Putin, the dictator Lukashenko was reelected for the sixth time after drowning in blood a popular uprising that lasted five months and that moved the entire society against electoral fraud.
There are no figures of deaths, but there were a few hundred who lost their lives, and many more wounded, tortured and nearly seven thousand detained. Maria Kolesnikova, one of the three women who led the August 2020 revolution in Belarus, was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
LATIN AMERICA, RUSSIAN COLONY?
Three days ago, in the dispute over Ukraine, and while Kazakhstan was fresh news, Putin warned Joe Biden, President of the United States, that he would send troops to Venezuela and Cuba. Those referred to, showing complete colonial subordination, did not open their mouths.
As we have described, Putin has learned in his own backyard how to maintain through blood and fire dictators that are loyal to him. That experience has been transferred to our region, which is becoming Putin’s second backyard in the face of the inaction of the decaying North American empire. What would be of Maduro without Putin! And Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, who is always in economic and political trouble, will travel to Russia and China in early February to see if they can save him.
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE ON THE ATTACK
The dictatorial regimes of Russia and China are on the economic and military offensive throughout the world. On the other hand, democracies are threatened even in the United States. A new world order is emerging that discourages anyone.
Both China and Russia, plus the votes of the dictators of the world, neutralize any sanction or condemnation in the United Nations. Ortega who kills with impunity in Nicaragua, arrests all opposition candidates, and wins openly fraudulent elections, could never be sanctioned in the United Nations.
Tokayev, the dictator of Kazakhstan, the one who ordered the firing of demonstrators without warning, the one who allowed the Russian invasion of his country, is the president of the United Nations Security Council.
And the UN Human Rights Council since January 1 is managed by the 10 worst regimes in the world, including China, Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba.
Meanwhile, Luis Almagro’s OAS is losing strength with the repeated victory of the left in several countries in the region.
Yes, we are alone, just like the resistance in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. And yet, a week ago the opposition won the governorship in Barinas, the cradle and apparently the grave of Chavismo in Venezuela. He won despite the fraud, the tanks, the intimidation, and the arrest of candidates. This is encouraging.
Source: http://www.cabildeodigital.com/2022/01/cada-vez-es-mas-dificil-tumbar-un.html
