Date: Friday, May 22, 2009
I had intended to write about my roommate Esteban Urquizu Cuellar of Bolivia tonight, some kind of
insightful look into his soul, but Esteban speaks very little English, and my Spanish is quite rusty.
I know he came here to the United Nations Permanent Forum thanks to Tribal Link as I have, but not
too much else about the man, nevertheless I heard him talk at length (albeit in Spanish) about the plight
of Indigenous Bolivians in Sucre Province, the only part of Bolivia that cringed at the thought of an
'Indian' becoming the President when Evo Morales Ayma won office.
In the west - the media (mostly American) leads viewers - especially those who have never traveled to
Bolivia - to believe that what is going on in Sucre Province is nothing more than a 'Socialist Coca
promoting President trying to usurp the rights of the decent hardworking Spaniard descendant business
community there'.
For clarity I will refer to the Oligarchy and Plantocracy in Bolivia as being 'Ethnic Spaniards', let's call
a spade a spade, they maintain homes and bank accounts back in the 'old country' (ie Spain) and are
quite proud of their Conquistador ancestors, lastly they still look every bit the Spaniard biologically
speaking, and as I am fond of saying "If I take an Indian Elephant to England and it gives birth - does
the offspring then become an English Elephant?" The answer is no - it does not, it becomes merely an
Indian Elephant that was born in England. A word to the wise is good enough.
Ladies and gentlemen, no better a deception could have been engineered by the CIA themselves! I
have been to Bolivia twice, I have traveled around the country, and I was the ONLY person from the
Caribbean region invited to be in the audience at the Presidential Palace when President Morales
Nationalized the Natural Gas Companies in Bolivia in 2007; in any fair-minded person's opinion it was
quite justified, it is obscene for a company to extract the natural resources of a poor country and pay the
host nation mere cents on every dollar they earn in the process.
Concerning Coca, I chewed Coca leaves and trust me - there is nothing more 'sinister' gained from it
than the abation of hunger pangs, it saved me some money as I did not need to eat as often, also I was
one of the few members of the OAS Indigenous Caucus invited to Bolivia who did NOT suffer altitude
sickness during my stay over 9,000 feet above sea level there....I attribute this to the Coca leaves I
chewed daily.
Coca leaves are NOT the same thing as 'Cocaine', only in the mind of an idiot is this the case, Coca
leaves are merely an ingredient like many other harmless ingredients that can be artificially combined
with others to make deadly substances; or popular drinks - did you know several tons of Coca leaves
are exported from Bolivia to make Coca-Cola each year? I thought not. Can't be bringing disrepute to
an American tradition now can we, save the smear campaign for those whom we can't get to join our
'New World Order puppet show'(Like Evo Morales).
I don't recall any Western Media reporting on the fact that the proud Spaniard descendant governor of
Sucre owns 90% of the land in his province? Then again, that might remind people of the inherited
unjust privileges of the Conquistador's progeny who still leech out a living from the backs of
indigenous Bolivians on the lands their Spaniard descendants stole in the first place 5 centuries ago! I
fear too that if the fact that ALL privately owned TV stations in Bolivia are owned by ethnic Spaniards
became a publicly know fact in the West ...one might realize that perhaps that is why all the news
reports emanating from those same stations give a decidedly distorted view of the reality on the ground
- portraying the 'savage natives' against the 'innocent ruling class'...now where have I heard that script
before?
In summation, I daresay the 60 minutes of video footage in my possession which very vividly shows
the true nature of the rabidly racist ethnic Spaniards in Sucre Province Bolivia, scene after scene of
Indigenous men, women and children - this includes the very old and very young - being spat upon,
racially insulted ('Dirty Indian Dog' and the like), kicked, whipped, beaten with planks of wood,
punched, slapped in the face etc, while the flag of the red Cross of good old Spain flies nobly overhead
as the rainbow flag of the Indigenous Andeans is publicly burned to wild chants of "Kill Evo!",
"Stinking Indians!" etc are chanted by those whom I think bear out my justifications for referring to
them as Ethnic Spaniards -for they most certainly are NOT genuine Bolivians. The saddest aspect of
the footage I just watched was that it was not only male ethnic Spaniards doing these heinous acts to
battered and bloody Indigenous civilians, their wives and children were right there alongside them
partaking with gusto, verily I last saw such racist hatred in the eyes of European descendant mobs in
American Civil Rights era footage my old headmaster showed us at Secondary School history class in
Barbados when I was but a lad myself.
I can assure you of this much, had it been little white faces bloodied and sobbing kicked around like
rag-dolls in the streets of Sucre Bolivia - instead of the brown and red Indigenous children's faces I just
saw - the Western World would be OUTRAGED and the coverage and media attention would blanket the airwaves!
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