August 20, 2024, 4:00 AM
August 20, 2024, 4:00 AM
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a cunning and defiant king who tricked the gods on several occasions. His cunning and arrogance eventually earned him an eternal punishment imposed by Zeus: he was to push a giant boulder to the top of a hill, only to have the boulder roll back down, forcing him to start over again, in an endless cycle of effort and failure; and why represents the absurd, the dead end that leads to the same thing, As we are now in Bolivia navigating in turbulent socialist waters divided into two streams, with absurd proposals for referendums that do not solve anything from the central government, announcements of war from the other front in Chapare, camouflaged racehorses emerging in Cochabamba, and opponents who do not raise a united head to carry that heavy rock to the top and declare victory of well-being, tranquility and peace for our country.
The myth was resurrected by the French philosopher Albert Camus in an essay in which
challenges our perception of life, because in At the heart of existentialist philosophy lies a powerful and daunting image: that of King Sisyphus, condemned to push a stone immense uphill climb, only to see it roll back down again, repeating this futile task for all eternity.
In Bolivia we are like this, well It has been of no use that we rebelled against the fraud, certified by the OAS, of the 2019 electoral elections, and that we planted our little whistles until we achieved the resignation of the then socialist president Evo Morales who against all odds had forced a fourth term.
Also achieving with the fall of the regime, to unmask those false idols represented by Vice President Álvaro García Linera and all that paraphernalia that they had put together making us believe that it was the first indigenous government in almost 200 years of republican life, when in fact, the “indigenous brothers” themselves were beaten in the so-called Chaparina massacre. In 2011, when they marched to La Paz, demanding respect for the land and their territory, land and territory that has now been taken over by gold merchants who dump cancer-causing mercury into the waters that feed them and give them life.
Indigenous people who only served as a screen to create the so-called Indigenous Fund, which was actually the petty cash of the Movement for Socialism to reproduce power and maintain it, as the Italian writer Machiavelli says, when he points out that the end justifies the means, since around Bs500 million were stolen.
But when we Bolivians believed that our history was going to change, during the transitional government of Jeanine Añez, who represented the right or capitalism, the ghost of corruption also ends up drowning us in overpriced gases bought by the super minister Arturo Murillo, now imprisoned in the United States.
And like that king Sisyphus we returned to socialism and We started from the starting point and pushed the rock up believing that the current president Luis Arce had the magic formula to stop bearing the weight of the stone, but we have remained there, to the point that we can no longer continue, in debt to the limit, without dollars, without fuel and with empty pots echoing in the streets, longing for an Aladdin to appear with his magic lamp that instead of offering us referendums to fight more or war and conflicts from Chapare, lead us to encounter and hope…
