Living in a failed state

The road to turn Bolivia into a failed state is well advanced and perhaps it would not have been necessary to add a section of shame, with the military patrol that surrendered to some smugglers.

That unfortunate spectacle was not necessary when clandestine drug trafficking rings are operating in Bajo Paraguá, with night lighting, as Carlos Romero says, in a place where the Bolivian State has no footprint.

That humiliation was excessive when in the Amboró there is a “clandestine” track that has a “duty free” and offers Colombian food to visitors.

The FAB’s admission that it does not have planes to control drug-trafficking planes has justified the Ministry of Defense not putting into operation the thirteen radars purchased in 2017 for 225 million dollars.
The explanation given is that Bolivia does not have the capacity to exercise sovereignty over its airspace.

If you look closely, Bolivia cannot exercise sovereignty over the rest of its non-air territory either: the national parks have been taken over by drug traffickers, who have installed cocaine hydrochloride factories in all of them, the most modern factories in South America.

And then, the last straw. Deputy Ramiro Venegas said that the government of Luis Arce has ties to the Brazilian PCC, the largest mafia in Sao Paulo, but neither the prosecutor nor the Bolivian judges paid attention to him, busy as they are arresting critics of the Government.

Brazilian mafias have coca plantations and drug factories in Bolivian territory, according to O Estado de Sao Paulo. This explains why wars are taking place between drug traffickers from that country within Bolivia.

Carlos Romero assures that the Government of Arce has a minister with direct participation in the business. And Evo Morales himself has said that Eduardo del Castillo is, in reality, a drug trafficker, while the other side does not want to answer him, perhaps because it is not necessary.

Nor was it necessary to humiliate the military now that the invaders of private land kidnapped policemen, and some journalists like yapa, but nothing happens to them because the judges are busy with their other concerns.

It was too much for a military patrol to surrender to smugglers, and sign an act to guarantee that it will not stop any cars smuggled from Chile, whether stolen there or arriving on Chinese ships in Iquique.

Without signing minutes, the same thing happens in Chapare or Beni or in other large territories of Potosí.

Living in a failed state is not a drama. You just have to get used to there being no institutions.

The last thing you can do is leave for other parts. This is what the promoters of this project are after.