green shirts, green white flags, slogans against the central power and thief who clip the wings to the provinces, most of which work and do speak the facts, autonomy as a panacea for all ills and injustice .. .. a nightmare! For a moment I was terrified of an invasion of valley in eastern Bolivia! It is not 'so', fortunately, were the activists of an autonomous part of the province of Santa Cruz. Sunday there 'was a referendum { http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/05/04/132bolivia.html }, feared clashes, there was tension in the air, but apart from a few skirmishes, two stones and some beaten, some burnt ballot box, and 'spun smoothly. The referendum 'was a plebiscite, and in fact reflects what I've seen talking to people in those days. The situation 'is much more complex than that described on the republic which makes it a war between rich and poor. The people, not only in the rich Santa Cruz, has boxes full of President Morales. Elected two years with great expectations and a half ago, the first indigenous president, first president who wins a majority in the first round, finally seemed the right person to open a new era, after two centuries of domination, whether cultural, by a white minority, a small town, on a majority of Indians, campesinos, constantly on the edge of the areas of power and society 'civil. But Evo, still at the head of a union of coca growers and 'managed to disappoint all the hopes placed in him and burn in a short time a consensus unparalleled in the history of the Bolivian State. The living conditions of most of the classes' poor have not improved. All the neighboring countries: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay the same, are experiencing a phase of economic development except Bolivia and the answers given by the government range from a typical caudillismo the South American continent and the proposed models of socialist, out of time and out of place. There is no 'person or newspaper that supports the government, apart from the activists of the MAS. I'd love to hear some of the reasons supporter of Evo, just to make me a better idea, but I just can not! With regard to the east, and 'economically most' developed and growing, also because of new gas fields have been discovered in the area. On the other autonomist model proposed seems almost a declaration of independence, for example is about exploitation of resources, and this is obviously one of the key points, the exclusive jurisdiction of the department. The central government points out, not without reason, that the development of the East Bolivian, who until a few decades ago it was the poorest part of the country, and 'was generated from the investments that the State has done in this area: roads, airports, pipelines, and right now that is starting to get a return, he was asked to step aside and let the whole cake to cruzeni . On the other hand, Bolivia and 'the central government and a centralizer, taxes are controlled and redistributed by La Paz and it seems that even with little paperwork is necessary to make a trip to the capital.
This referendum is triggering a chain reaction that affects all other provinces, which have begun the process of their own autonomy. The President, very instinctive and little cautious in its reaction, there appears to be in possession of skills', at least diplomatic, to meet sitauzione this, and it hides behind, even with a healthy dose of populism throughout South America, on the activists, Indian and coca growers, who often uses, even in a threatening against the activists. Among other developing South American fears disaster scenarios in the coming years with regard to the global ecosystem. Thousands and thousands of hectares of the Amazon forest will be devoted to the cultivation of cane to produce pumpkins, Bio / Diesel, even traditional cultures will be supplanted, {the price of corn, for example, is already 'going up, and a lot}. Not to mention the use or misuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, particularly on the part of the community of Mormons, who seems to own everything and do not refuse ' modern.
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