Following a controversial legal process, the Bolivian justice system has issued an arrest warrant against former leftist President Evo Morales, who governed Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. The Prosecutor’s Office is seeking a 20-year sentence against one of the Andean country’s most prominent opposition leaders.
The prosecution accuses Morales of having had a romantic relationship with a minor who allegedly had a daughter with Morales while he was president of Bolivia.
However, the news outlet Telesur reported that the alleged victim, named Cindy Vargas, appeared before the Court Against Violence Against Women and requested that the case be dismissed: “I am not a victim; the incident did not occur, nor was there any exploitation.” In light of this, Vargas objected to public institutions pursuing legal action on her behalf and requested that the case be dismissed.
Furthermore, Morales stated: “For more than 40 years, not only have they accused me of being a drug trafficker and a terrorist, but they have investigated me through every possible avenue without having found a single piece of evidence of those crimes or of corruption. The iconic leader demanded that his accusers present “legal and factual evidence” of the alleged crimes he committed. “I do not seek impunity,” Morales asserted.
The Bolivian state wants to find any way to clamp down on the left because they understand the right's position is so shaky and fragile. Can an iron grip bring the Bolivian movement to heel? Or will it force a response it's unable to repress? Well, Evo knows:
Despite what he describes as a targeted lawfare campaign, Morales emphasized that his accusers will never be able to “silence the organized, combative, and outraged people in the face of a government of the rich, of neocolonialists, and of traitors.”
The Bolivian people fought for and enjoyed the fruits of 20 years of socialist progress, even if restrained by a liberal political system. Will they surrender that progress because internal friction of now-dead MAS? Or will they rise to the occasion and act as the protagonists of their own history?
For now, several media outlets speculate that Morales is in Cochabamba, where his most loyal supporters are protecting him against any possibility of imprisonment. Furthermore, several of his supporters have promised that if the former president is arrested, they will launch nationwide protests.
In this regard, union leader Dieter Mendoza said that if they touch Morales, there could be an insurgency and the country could descend into chaos: “If they touch Evo Morales, this is going to cause chaos. The country is going to be thrown into chaos in ways you can’t imagine; there will be an insurgency across Bolivia.”
Let me just say that every day, I feel more vindicated in my position that we will see revolutions in the Andes in the near future.
Commercial jet engines are basically the sole remaining technological advantage the US wields over China. Boeing engines do the job even if the planes as a whole are shoddy af. The US ruling class, being the stupid racist brutes they are, believe this constantly narrowing technological edge to be eternal and something the Chinese brainpan is incapable of overcoming, and so (exactly like with every other technology) they will attempt to withhold it as leverage and only accelerate Chinese domestic superiority.
Dialectical is when we believe the hyperbolic statements of Bourgeois Liberal states at face value?
I don't really care at all what current Euro leadership says. Outside of a little squawking form Spain and Ireland, they're all in the tank for imperialism. Their dialogue does not factor into my analysis because they will not matter in a very short span of time.
Who else will EU buy weapons and energy from? There is nowhere else to go, they are still deluding themselves that they can be a little autarky and the energy crisis will disappear and the USA will stop destroying all of its competitors. USA has them in a vice grip because they will never go to Russia and China
Well, you answer your question in the next sentence. Eventually, they will go to Russia and China. It's obviously not so impossible since they were doing it five years ago.
The whole point is that Europe is on the "winning team" the "garden", they will never join the "jungle" because they are the poor, the undeveloped, etc. You have to account for this material reality and ideology in the European elite and masses.
But which way is global development moving? Europe and the US get less developed every day while the global south gets more. Europeans know they're no garden because it's only been 80 years since an outside power (the US) had to step and force them to stop killing each other in history's bloodiest wars over and over again. The material reality that matters is that imperialism gave Europeans across social classes a very good deal for a very long time, but now that deal has stopped paying out. Neither the European working class nor the bulk of the capitalist class are getting anything but fucked by this relationship these days.
As long as USA is the guy with the big stick going around mugging people, they are on that team, until the that guy with the big stick loses. Only then will they abandon the sinking ship.
We're watching the US's big stick fail miserably right now and blow up in Europe's face. How are we not at the "abandon ship" point yet?
To actually lay out my argument instead of just my lazy comment from before:
The current neoliberal leadership of Europe is dead. It is a shambling corpse with only a few years left before it comes apart. It has not only (and obviously) utterly failed to deliver for the European masses, but it is not miserably failing to deliver for the European capitalists. The European neoliberal imperial internship has lead to the US picking apart the EU's industrial economy, sidelining Euro capitalists and blowing up their ability to secure the segment of global profits they were supposed to get as part of this deal. What is the base of their power then besides simple momentum? A political leadership with no class to support them!
Will neoliberals be in power in the UK, France, Italy, or Spain five years from now? I think we can safely say, for the most part, no - you will get fascism or you will get some kind of anti-neoliberal leftism ranging from socdem to nearly communist. That'll be the Greens in the UK, a revitalized PSOE in Spain, LFI in France, etc, if they can beat their respective fascists. Both of these groups will want to change the relationship with the US for different reasons, but in both cases they want to extricate from the Ukraine disaster. We can see that Eastern Europe is (of course) already further along in this historical process, with the semiconservative socialistish parties doing well in Romania, Slovakia, parts of former Yugoslavia, etc. These parties are quite openly friendly with Russia (and China secondarily) while opposing the EU project and particularly the subjugation to US via Ukraine.
Europe's economy is a fucking disaster in ways that are quite obviously the fault of the US. The intentional draining of Germany's industry via the Ukraine war and the short-sighted buffoonery of the Iran war have obliterated the energy market so badly that there simply is not path to recovery under the current conditions. Europe basically has three paths forward: return to the grand European tradition of constantly being at barbaric war with each other and shrink into irrelevance on the world stage (fascism), pursue some genuine independence and sovereignty (socialism), or be transformed into a third world style comprador state on the losing end of unequal exchange. The US wants the third option, and it's certainly not impossible, but it's the hardest to achieve because it has no class support. There is no existing comprador bourgeoisie while there is still a very strong national/continental bourgeoisie. The working class is decently well organized and not likely to roll over. That option, therefore, produces conditions for class collaboration between workers and capitalists, which then leads back to either national bourgeois victory (fascism) or European proletarian victory (socialism).
Already all over Europe, political parties are in turmoil with venerable institutions collapsing and upstart anti-establishment of the left and right grasping for and approaching power. Europe's status quo as a junior imperial partner is already over. What's undialectical is projecting this obviously fractious, unstable, and declining system as eternal into the future. It's already done.
Italy is already ahead of France:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/manufacturing-by-country