Established 1946 1 Pages 20 Price : Rupees Five Vol. 74 No. 44 Evo Morales Overthrown, But Bolivian November 24, 2019 Socialism Will Be Victorious! The Ayodhya Verdict is Based Andre Vltchek on a Strange Feat of Logic Markandey Katju They pledged to do it, and El Alto, until recently a place Has Supreme Court Caved in they did—Bolivian feudal lords, of hope, with its playgrounds for to Hindutva? mass media magnates and other children and elegant cable cars Ajaz Ashraf treasonous “elites”—they overthrew connecting the once dirt-poor Restoration Of Democracy: the government, broke hope and communities, is now beginning to March From Jammu To Srinagar interrupted an extremely successful lose its native sons and daughters. The Nehru That India Cannot Battles are raging. People are Forget socialist process in what was once Sushil Aaron one of the poorest countries in South charging against the oppressors, Bhopal Gas Tragedy: America. carrying flags, dying. Erased from Memory? One day, they will be cursed by A civil war, or more precisely, a Sabrangindia their own nation. One day they will war for the survival of socialism, a Police Brutally Attack stand trial for sedition. One day, they war against imperialism, for social JNU Students will have to reveal who trained them, justice, for indigenous people. A war The Coup in Bolivia and Your who employed them, who turned against racism. A war for Bolivia, for Computer / TV Screen them into spineless beasts. One day! its tremendous pre-colonial culture, Vijay Prashad Hopefully soon. for life; life as it is being perceived The Media’s Anti-Bernie Bias But now, Evo Morales, legitimate in the Andes, or deep in the South Alan MacLeod President of Bolivia, elected American rainforest, not as it is seen Editor : G. G. Parikh again and again by his people, is in Paris, Washington or Madrid. leaving his beloved country. He is Associate Editor : Neeraj Jain * * * crossing the Andes, flying far, to The legacy of Evo Morales is Managing Editor : Guddi fraternal Mexico, which extended tangible, and simple to understand. Editorial Board : her beautiful hand, and offered him During almost 14 years in power, political asylum. B. Vivekanandan, Qurban Ali all the social indicators of Bolivia This is now. The striking streets Anil Nauriya, Sonal Shah went sky-high. Millions were pulled of La Paz are covered by smoke, out of poverty. Millions have been Amarendra Dhaneshwar, full of soldiers, stained with blood. benefiting from free medical care, Sandeep Pandey People are disappearing. They free education, subsidised housing, D-15, Ganesh Prasad, are being detained, beaten, and improved infrastructure, a relatively Naushir Bharucha Marg, tortured. Photos of indigenous men high minimum wage, but also, Mumbai - 400 007. and women, kneeling, facing walls, from pride that was given back to hands tied behind their backs, are Email : [email protected] the indigenous population, which beginning to circulate on social forms the majority in this historically Website:www.janataweekly.org media. feudal country governed by corrupt, 2 JANATA, November 24, 2019 ruthless ‘elites’—descendants of But the Bolivian business by some miracle, they join the Left, Spanish conquistadors and European community, as in so many other Latin it is the Western, anarcho-syndicalist ‘gold-diggers’. American countries, is obsessed with Left of North America and Europe, Evo Morales made the Aymara the one and only ‘indicator’: “how never the real, anti-imperialist, and Quechua languages official, much higher, how much above the revolutionary Left of non-European on par with Spanish. He made average citizens it can get”. This is countries. people who communicate in these the old mentality of the colonialists; They don’t need the success of languages, equal to those who use a feudal, fascist mentality. the nation. They don’t want a great, the tongue of the conquerors. He Years ago, I was invited, in La prosperous Bolivia; Bolivia for all elevated the great indigenous culture Paz, for dinner by an old family of of its citizens. high, to where it belongs—making senators and mass media owners. They only want prosperous it the symbol of Bolivia, and of the With no shame, no fear, openly, they corporations. They want money, entire region. spoke, despite knowing who I was: profit; for themselves, for their Gone was the Christian “We will get rid of this families and clans, for their bandit cross-kissing (look at the crosses Indigenous bastard. Who does he group of people. They want to be reappearing again, all around the think he is? If we lose millions of revered, considered ‘exceptional’, oh so European-looking Jeanine dollars in the process, as we did in superior. They cannot live without Añez who has grabbed power, 1973 Chile and now in Venezuela, that gap—the great gap between ‘temporarily’ but still thoroughly we will still do it. Restoring our them and those ‘dirty Indians’, as illegally). Instead, Evo used to travel, order is the priority.” they call the indigenous people, at least once a year, to Tiwanaku, There is absolutely no way to when no one hears them! reason with these people. They “the capital of the powerful pre- * * * cannot be appeased, only crushed; Hispanic empire that dominated a And that is why, Bolivia should defeated. In Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, large area of the southern Andes and fight, defend itself,as it is beginning Ecuador or in Bolivia. They are like beyond, reached its apogee between to do so right now. rats, like disease, proverbial symbols 500 and 900 AD”, according to If this, what is happening to of fascism as in the novel The UNESCO. That is where he used Evo and his government, is “the Plague, written by Albert Camus. to search for spiritual peace. That is end”, then Bolivia will be set back They can hide, but they never fully where his identity came from. by decades. Entire generations will disappear. They are always ready Gone was the veneration of the again rot alive, in desperation, in to invade, with zero notice, some Western colonialist and imperialist rural shacks made of clay, without happy city. culture, of savage capitalism. water and electricity, and without They are always ready to join This was a new world, with hope. forces with the West, because ancient, deep roots. This is where The ‘elites’ are now talking their roots are in the West. They South America has been regrouping. about ‘peace’. Peace for whom? For think precisely like the European Here, and in Correa’s Ecuador, them! Peace, as it was before Evo; conquerors, like North American before Correa and his beliefs were ‘peace’ so the rich can play golf and imperialists. They have double purged and ousted by the treacherous fly for shopping to their beloved nationalities and homes scattered Moreno. Miami and Madrid, while 90% of all over the world. Latin America And what is more: before the the population was getting kicked, for them is just a place to live, coup, Bolivia was not suffering humiliated, insulted. I remember and to plunder natural resources, from economic downfall; it was that ‘peace’. The Bolivian people exploit labor. They rob here, and doing well, extremely well. It was remember it even better. spend money elsewhere; educate growing, stable, reliable, confident. I covered the civil war in their children elsewhere, get their Even the owners of big Bolivian neighboring Peru, for several years, surgeries done (plastic and real) companies, if they were to care one in the 90’s, and I often crossed over elsewhere. They go to opera houses bit for Bolivia and its people, had into Bolivia. I wrote an entire novel in Paris but never mingle with countless reasons to rejoice. about it—“Point of No Return”. It indigenous people at home. Even if, * * * was an absolute horror. I could not JANATA, November 24, 2019 3 even take my local photographers Each time, and I repeat each again being used. It may be out of to a concert or for a cup of coffee in time, a decent, honest government fashion in Paris or London, but not a decent place, because they were is voted in, democratically, by the in South America. And that is what cholos, indigenous. Nobodies in people, each time there is someone matters—here! their own countries. It was apartheid. who has invented a brilliant solution Evo did not lose. He won. And if socialism does not return, it and solid plan to improve this dire His country has won. Under his will be apartheid once again. situation, the clock begins ticking. leadership, it became a wonderful Last time I went to Bolivia, few The years (sometimes even months) country; a country full of hope, a months ago, it was totally different of the leader are numbered. He or she country that offered great prospects country. Free, confident. Stunning. will either be killed, or ousted, or to hundreds of millions all over La Remembering what I saw in humiliated and forced out of power. Patria Grande. Everyone south of Bolivia and Peru, quarter of a century The country then goes back to, the Rio Grande knows it. Marvelous ago, I declare, clearly and decisively: literally, shit, as has happened just Mexico, which has given him “To hell with such ‘peace’, proposed recently to Ecuador (under Moreno), asylum, knows it, too. by elites’”! Argentina (under Macri) and Brazil Evo has won. And then, he (under Bolsonaro). The brutal status was forced out by the treasonous * * * quo is preserved. The lives of tens military, by treasonous business In Paris, on the 10th November, of millions are ruined. “Peace” thugs, feudal land owners, and by in the middle of the Place de la returns.