Carlos Sánchez Berzaín: How Castrochavismo Took Over Bolivia

Socialism of the XXI Century has implanted itself in Bolivia, and it will never leave via any democratic means.

By Luis Leonel León

(Panampost.com) From the beginning author Carlos Sánchez Berzaín makes it clear: his homeland is captive. And he means this literally: it’s a fact. And it is terrible, although still some do not understand what this situation means for Bolivians, nor perceive its very serious extraterritorial effects. However, losing sight of both of these issues, is dangerous.

Precisely for this reason the political scientist and lawyer Carlos Sánchez Berzaín has published Bolivia: The country is captive (InterAmerican Institute for Democracy, IID, 2018). It includes a series of brief essays detailing the reality of the South American country during the past decade and a half, marching under the dictatorship of Socialism of the XXI Century (SSXXI), a label that serves as a pretext for contemporary interventionism and imperialism, we should say of a neo-Castro nature, in Latin America. Or what is essentially the same: the export of the Cuban model.

Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia are still trapped in its web. Before they fell Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina were as well. Although fewer nations remain captive, it has been 20 long and damaging years for the region. And their disasters do not stop. Hence, Berzaín gives us a book on Bolivia and at the same time on the SSXXI.

With master’s degrees in political science and sociology, this author, several times Minister of State and founding member of the Legal Ateneo, is one of the most astute analysts of these Cuban puppet states, and one of their most fierce opponents. Precisely because he became an exile when Evo Morales took his nation hostage and persecuted him and other dissidents. From the United States, he has continued to demonstrate the ineffectiveness and illegitimacy of Morales.

Dictators, we know, feel threatened by those who show that instead of legitimate rulers, they are criminals disguised as democrats, Robin Hoods of the 21st century. Not for nothing, the corrupt cocalero unionist fears the words of Berzaín, his dismantling of the SSXXI: the worst narco-terrorist organization in the history of the Americas, whose head is still in Havana, and which, let’s not forget, after the fall of the Communist bloc of Eastern Europe, emerged in the now-wounded Forum of Sao Paulo, with the Workers Party (of sentenced Lula da Silva), recently defeated by Jair Bolsonaro (Social Liberal Party). The most recent defeat of the SSXXI.

With hopeful eyes and geopolitical insight, Berzaín sees in Bolsonaro the possibility of “a vital contribution to democracy in Brazil and in the Americas.” For his part, Morales looks at Bolsonaro with the same eyes – and the same fears – as the Bolivian professor, for whom law and democracy are sacred.

In Bolivia, after 15 years of demagoguery and abuses, there are few indigenous people, not only from Bolivia, but throughout Latin America, who believe that Morales is their staunch defender. His actions have shown that he is their worst enemy. In this book, all this is explained and denounced with careful analysis.