Our revolutions and their coup

x Marcos Roitman Rosenmann: We do not call ourselves to deceit, the right does not believe in democracy, so it fights and represses. Will always

Since independence, Latin America has been the object of desire of the imperialist powers. If the Spanish empire was able to fill its coffers of how much wealth it could shed for three centuries, its inheritance was the advent of an oligarchic order, whose result bogged down any project of democratic revolution. Miranda, Bolívar, Morazán, Artigas, San Martín, Manuel Rodríguez and Zeledón suffered the betrayal of those who preferred to act as cipayos, alongside foreign powers, rather than defend their homeland. Invasions, spurious wars, expropriation of territories.

We can still trace the colonial footprints of extracontinental powers in the Caribbean or in Patagonia: Britain, France, the Netherlands, but it will be the US, reinforcing the so-called Monroe doctrine, with the incorporation of the Platt amendment into the constitutions of Cuba and Panama, who moves their natural competitors. Theodore Roosevelt synthesizes the prototype of action of Yankee imperialism, giving free rein to the politics of the big stick and the diplomacy of the dollar.

Rubén Darío does not miss the opportunity to dedicate an ode to him in 1904. His first stanza portrays him: "It is with the voice of the bible or the verse of Walt Whitman, which would come to you hunter! Primitive and modern, simple and complicated , with something from Washington and four from Nemrod.You are the USA, you are the future invader of naive America that has indigenous blood, who still prays to Jesus Christ and still speaks Spanish.You are superb and strong example of your race: you are cultured, you are weak; you oppose Tolstoy. And taming horses, or killing tigers, you are Alexander-Nebuchadnezzar (you are an energy teacher, as crazy people say today.) You think life is fire, that progress is eruption; where you put the bullet the future you put. No (). "

Thus, each national project is fought with blood and fire. From the nineteenth century to the present, democratic and popular revolutions have fallen as a result of coups, leaders, despots, tyrants, satraps, to which more bloodthirsty, clad in military honors, under the watchful eye, and the placet of the United States. First the red liberals were persecuted, then followed by anarchists, socialists, communists, Marxists, anti-imperialists, all radical democrats. In this bacchanal, the armed forces participate in the extermination of the original peoples, repressing all kinds of popular demands, such as trade union rights, salary improvements or civil liberties. The easy trigger. The machine gun against the working people.

However, in the academies of war, future generals visualize coups as a war against the internal enemy, moments of glory, surrender to the nation and defense of national values. Summoned by the pluto-oligarchies, with exceptions, they are quick to genocide. There is no country on the continent whose performance has no lucrative ephemeris where they have slaughtered the people. The disproportionate use of force and violence is recurrent, it emerges as a response to democratic struggles, to popular, socialist and anti-capitalist revolutions.



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In front of them, the ruling classes respond with coups, repression and death. Today we see it in the coup in Bolivia. While popular revolutions defend life, produce dignity, social justice, encourage participation in decision-making processes, coups generate misery, social exclusion, pain, fear and, of course, inequality. That is the history. The rest a lie to implant state terrorism, under tyrannies of death.

In these two decades of the 21st century, Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala and Chile have undertaken a trip to the caverns, destroying all vestiges of reforms in the oldest patriarchal style of power. Defense of the traditional family, ecclesiastical marriage, denial of gender violence, maintenance of retrograde laws on abortion and criminalization of equal rights, in addition to an apocalyptic biblical discourse. The battle against the heretic.

Under these circumstances, their coup d'etats are a wake-up call, in whatever mode. There are no options for establishing a democratic order. Any project is repressed. The social cost does not matter. The important thing is to maintain the political power and direction of the economic model.

Venezuela undergoing economic strangulation resists coups and Cuba, with the blockade of more than half a century, does not cease in its efforts to keep alive the flame of the revolution and the Martian emancipation project.

Likewise, Chile condenses the contradictions of a neoliberalism in crisis. The statements of the president of the Democratic Revolution, Catalina Pérez, after the signing of the agreement for peace and the new Constitution, are devastating. He said he did so under the explicit threat of the Piñera government to take the military to the street. In these circumstances, he bowed his knee and bowed his head, like the rest, with exceptions, betraying a mobilized people who resisted and did not abandon their proposal for a democratic Constituent Assembly.

This maneuver can be interpreted as a consensus coup between government and opposition, to keep the Pinochet project alive. We are not called to deceit, the right does not believe in democracy, that is why it fights and represses. It will always. On the contrary, our revolutions constitute the most democratic moments in the history of the emancipatory and libertarian projects of Our America.

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