What happened to President Evo Morales on his return flight from Moscow to Bolivia is mind-boggling to us because of the specific details of this new imperialist intrigue. It is not surprising, though, given the permanent and unjustified aggression of the United States of America against the peoples of the world. This aggression is the rule, not the exception, of the conduct of this country, its armed forces and its intelligence agencies.
What is obvious in this case, in which Evo is a central figure, is that this imperialist power seems to have a limitless ability to act with impunity, violating every international treaty and using third party countries as puppets.
Regarding this serious incident against Evo, we can read between the lines. Indeed, not only was the Bolivian president the hostage of American abuse and misconduct for more than half a day, but we all were. The whole of mankind has become a hostage to constantly erupting interventionist policies that virulently and aggressively — and with a vile disregard for all of our principles of coexistence — tear apart human lives, human rights and national sovereignty.
This imperialist frenzy appears to have run amok and Obama is just a figurehead. More so than any president in U.S. history, and like no other Yankee chief executive we can remember, he is beholden to the military-industrial complex. The fact that this world power is so anxious and is acting so immorally just because one of its intelligence operatives has turned on them not only shows that it is breaking down, but it also augurs new evils, new interventions and new calamities for humanity.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States of America, Yankee-land, has clearly entered a period of self-proclaimed victimhood, which has been legitimized by a chorus of allies around the world and which has served as a springboard for its scandalous impunity. Predicting how this will end is unthinkable.
There is no longer any doubt that the unilateral declaration of “war against terrorism” that led it to invade Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — causing hundreds of civilian casualties — was a display of crocodile tears, a cover to go after oil. U.S. capitalism has always invented wars for oil (such as our Chaco War).* It has killed and it will continue to kill.
Faced with the world’s greatest superpower and a demobilized, drugged-up world, some senseless people consider this maelstrom of terror and lunacy to be normal, but now, denunciations of global espionage, a war by other means, have arisen within the belly of the beast.
When and how will all this Yankee insanity end? How many abuses and how much more pain will we have to bear?
Today is July 4, and the world should at least reflect on it.
*Editor’s note: The Chaco War was a war fought between Bolivia and Paraguay from 1932 to 1935 over a territory believed to be rich in oil. The war’s roots are often traced to a conflict between Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell.
Todos somos rehenes de los yanquis
Pablo Cingolani
Lo que ha sucedido con el Presidente Evo Morales en su vuelo de retorno a Bolivia desde Moscú, causa estupor por los componentes específicos de esta nueva tramoya imperialista, pero no puede causar sorpresa porque esas acciones de agresión permanente e injustificada de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica contra los pueblos del mundo son la norma y no la excepción del proceder de este país, sus fuerzas armadas y sus agencias de inteligencia.
El hecho evidente, en el caso que tuvo por protagonista a Evo, es que ese poder imperialista ya parece no tener límites a la hora de actuar de manera impune, violando todos los tratados internacionales y usando a terceros países como títeres de sus decisiones.
El mensaje que se puede leer entrelíneas del grave incidente que provocaron contra Evo es que no sólo el presidente boliviano fue rehén por más de medio día de los abusos y atropellos que cometen los norteamericanos, sino que, en los hechos, todos somos sus rehenes, la humanidad entera se ha vuelto un rehén de sus políticas de injerencia, que a cada rato, estallan y se descarnan de manera virulenta, con extrema agresividad y un vil menosprecio a todos los valores de convivencia universal, la vida de las personas, los derechos humanos y la soberanía de las naciones.
El desenfreno imperialista parece desbocado y Obama, el presidente más decorativo de la historia norteamericana, funcional al complejo militar-industrial como ningún otro primer mandatario yanqui que recordemos. Que ese poder se ponga tan nervioso y actúe de manera tan inmoral porque uno de sus operadores de inteligencia se les haya dado la vuelta, no sólo muestra descomposición, sino que augura nuevos males, nuevas intervenciones, nuevas calamidades a la humanidad.
Es evidente que desde el 11 de septiembre de 2001, los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, Yanquilandia, entraron en una época de victimización autoproclamada, y legitimada a coro por todos sus aliados planetarios, que sirvió de plataforma para una impunidad escandalosa y que es impensable predecir cómo terminará.
Su unilateral declaratoria de “guerra contra el terrorismo” –que la llevó a invadir Afganistán, Irak y Libia, con centenares de miles de muertos civiles-, ya no quedan dudas que fue su tapadera llorosa para ir detrás del petróleo, por el cual el capitalismo norteamericano siempre ha inventado guerras (la del Chaco, entre nosotros), ha matado y seguirá matando.
Ahora, dentro de esta vorágine de terror y locura –que algunos insensatos consideran normal dentro de un mundo desmovilizado y narcotizado frente a la prepotencia del más poderoso-, desde adentro de las entrañas del monstruo, es desde donde han surgido las denuncias de espionaje global, la guerra por otros medios.
¿Cuándo y cómo terminará toda esta demencia impulsada por los yanquis? ¿Cuántos abusos y cuanto más dolor habrá que soportar?
Hoy, 4 de julio, el mundo debería, al menos, reflexionar.
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[The Democrats] need to find a campaign issue which will resonate beyond their liberal-metropolitan heartlands before the midterm elections in the fall of 2026.
The paternalism with which the United States has been taking on the economy (with trade as a strategy) and the territory of South and Central America dates back a long time.
Biden's triumph has given us a guiding narrative: the idea that, in the worst circumstances, believing, organizing and mobilizing can produce a kind of miracle.
Fasten your seatbelts, Bolivia, there will be more of the same — much more. An empire in decline is at its most dangerous.