BOLIVIA "They are killing us with bullets" Bolivian Indigenous

By Armando García

The world has witnessed, through social networks, a medium that have more freedom than conventional media, in reporting what is happening in Latin America, mainly in Bolivia.

Images, videos are shown, where the Bolivarian military and police forces shoot the indigenous protesters, directly in the head without receiving any resistance, except for their right to express themselves against the de facto dictatorship of Jeanine Añez undercover behind a Bible and a Crucifix.

An indigenous woman in a video says in painful tears: "They are killing us with bullets."

The coup in Bolivia is a return to the dark times where the military dictatorship reigned in Latin America. The repression of the indigenous population in Cochabamba, a practically Evo Morales bastion and the MAS Party (Movement to Socialism) makes it impossible for the coup plotters to finally take power.

I consider now that Morales's resignation was a tactic, which at the beginning was to prevent bloodshed, now it is to fold ranks and be able to one day, perhaps not to be president again, but to coordinate the campaign of who could well succeed him in the power to continue the social conquests that he, as president, achieved for the country and therefore for the Bolivian people.

"I thought this kind of situation was over," Morales said at a press conference in Mexico. "But after many years, fascism, Nazism, and coups were reborn in Bolivia."

“We have fought for the demands of the Bolivian people. Some media report as if they had anesthetized, "said Morales." There are a people mobilized for freedom and democracy. We achieved many social conquests which are now being shattered for not accepting that Indigenous people can rule. ”

"The lies are not long, they have short legs," Evo Morales said to what he called a massacre a genocide against his "Bolivian brothers and sisters."

In Latin America much of the population is of indigenous origin, while a large part of those who have power are descendants of Europeans who conquered these lands with the Bible in one hand and with a firearm in the other. Those Whites, Creoles, Caucasians, who hate to see people of indigenous origin come to power, such as Morales's case, remain in Bolivia and in much of the continent.

With respect to the religious manifestations of the self-proclaimed President Añez and her followers, they are a reflection that religion, army, the right-wing and fascism go hand in hand. The churches, whether Catholic or Evangelical, are protectors of the oligarchic or military groups in power and use the Holy Scriptures as demagogic and alienating speeches, giving Carlos Marx the reason, who said that religion is the opium of the people.

In Bolivia, the clock of history receded until the times when the inquisition tortured in the name of God to impose a colonial regime, from which Latin America already became independent. But now, in the 21st century, it is a real disgust seeing how the Bolivian coup leaders are using the Bible as a fascist instrument to torment the Bolivian people to give preference to the wealthy, who only ambition is about accumulating power. The Holy Scriptures are being used to socially divide the indigenous and white usurpers, true strangers of these lands, as Jacinto Canek, the Maya indigenous in the 1700s in Mexico said.

In the 21st century, Latin America is experiencing the following scenario: Bolivia with a coup d’état, Ecuador under siege, Colombia, humanitarian crisis, Peru political crisis, Brazil, financial crisis, Argentina almost destruction, bloody Chile and Mexico attacked by the ultra-right. There are the pearls of voracious capitalism for having more power and thus exploiting natural resources, allied to the empire for world control.

President Donald Trump said that after Bolivia, his goal now is Nicaragua and Venezuela. The United States, with the provocation of coup d’états, wishes to ensure the dominance of the planet from Latin America. The world now has three forces, Russia, China and the United States. Bolivia is a country that shines in the middle of the South American continent. One of the main reasons for this glow is lithium, where Bolivia has the most world reserves. For its extraction, the Bolivian government headed by Evo Morales operated a joint venture between the state and individuals. Its biggest client is the People's Republic of China and had a very juicy trade agreement with the Andean country with Bolivia. That good commercial relationship between the two countries certainly bothered Trump, so he came to the audacity to support the coup in Bolivia.

Armando García is a recognized journalist from the United States and is the editor and founder of Nuestra América Magazine.