MOVIMIENTO PARA EL
SOCIALISMO (MAS) – Bolivia
CONVERGENZA
SOCIALISTA (CS) – Italia
AN INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR THE NEXT IMMINENT GENERAL
ELECTION THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN BOLIVIA IN 2020
WE POLITICALLY GIVE SUPPORT TO THE “MAS” – BY MONITORING THE
ELECTION
TO THE SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST POLITICAL PARTIES AND
ORGANISATIONS AGAINST THE COUP D’ETAT AND AGAINST IMPERIALISM
The socialist and communist political parties and
organisations, taking note of the serious illegal situation in Bolivia and
that:
1. On 20 October
2019 Bolivians voted for the presidential elections where Evo Morales ran for
the third time obtaining an overwhelming victory. After the clear victory,
international pressure against Morales has become unsustainable and, on 11
November 2019, the elected President is forced to leave Bolivia by the police
chief’s invitation. First by going to Mexico, then to Argentina, Morales was
saved from the reaction of the coup leaders. However, this fate has not spared
many other politicians, unions and simple protesters for justice and democracy.
2. After almost
14 years of presidency, Evo Morales’ forced exile - the first indigenous
Bolivian President - caused a racial conflict to explode again, between the
middle or rich urban classes of European descent, and those of indigenous
descent, mainly workers and farmers. Evo Morales, the first native Bolivian
President and union leader of the Bolivian cocaleros, a federation of
campesinos Quechua e Aymara, was, and still he is today, the President to whom
indigenous and farmers identify themselves, the working class.
3. From the
forced Evo Morales’s exile, racial conflicts have re-emerged between the richer
eastern plains, populations largely Christian and European origin, and the
poorer western highlands with mainly indigenous farmers and followers of the
deep-rooted belief system called the Pachamama.
4. Adriana
Guzmán, a Bolivian representative of the "feminist community movement” and
of indigenous women, said in an interview with the El Salto Diario magazine on
November 14, 2019 that the violent groups, authors of those murders, come from
the Union of Youth of Cruceñista , who in 2008 were already armed whose mission
was to kill the natives. A fascist and racist group. There are also young
university students, members of these groups, who have generated terror.
Therefore, social organizations, formed by indigenous people and farmers, are
attacked. Adriana Guzmán claimed that mainly Aymara and Quechua, both men and
women, were attacked.
5. Only during
the first month of the coup, in November 2019, the death toll rose to 32, with
over 30 serious injuries, due to the wave of violence unleashed in the country
after the elections of 20 October 2019, with the forced resignation and exile
of ex-president Evo Morales.
6. The plaint
blockage of the Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPFB) in Senkata have caused
fuel shortages in both El Alto and La Paz. According to local union’s data, 80%
of public transport has had huge shortages in city where there is also a
shortage of fruit, vegetables and meat products, such as chicken.
7. The coup has
wreaked havoc and aroused fear of the return of political instability in the
country, where there have been 190 coups’s attempts and revolutions since its
independence in 1825, in a constant class struggle between the capital of the
elites and the private sector, and rural working people.
8. The arrival of
Evo Morales in power on January 22, 2006 represented a radical and positive
paradigm shift for indigenous, rural and working people, in a situation
dominated by pro-US political elites. The arrival of an indigenous syndicalist
and farmer allowed the circles of power to enter the sectors traditionally left
behind in the decision-making process, despite their majority character in the
population.
9. The biggest
success of the Morales governments has been the introduction of a new political
Constitution that has declared Bolivia a plurinational state, allowing the
self-government of indigenous peoples. In addition, the Magna Carta has created
a Congress with seats reserved for groups of ethnic minorities in the country.
10. Meanwhile, the
interim Áñez government, which represents the conservative and Christian sector
and which it strongly depresses the hope the natives’ emancipation, declared
the New Year Aymara, celebrated every 21st of June, a satanic holiday and
refusing the celebration of the rituals of the Andean culture.
DECLARE
a) to politically
support Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism (MAS);
b) to strengthen
the monitoring of the upcoming presidential elections in 2020 so that it will
take place in full transparency and democratic spirit;
c) to strengthen,
at international level, the spirit of political solidarity towards the MAS and
to all the socialist and communist political organizations in difficulty;
d) to create an
international network of mutual political support between all the signatory organizations
of this appeal.
The socialist and communist political parties and
organizations that sign this appeal will work together, joining forces, to
achieve the above objectives.
FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS
FOR THE WORKING CLASS
FOR SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
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