The indigenous myths

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 2022/08/11

Despite being a skeptic about the independence processes in Latin America, I must admit that the Bolivian regime has not been able to eliminate the significant date of August 6 is a great triumph, especially for those of us who yearn to see a Bolivia free of Castrochavism.

It happens that, with greater emphasis since the 1990s, the Bolivian left has tried to rewrite our history. For that he has used some clichés, for example, indigenism.

We have written before about the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the discursive crisis of the global and Latin American left. Therefore, socialist stories were deconstructed into other short stories: homosexuals against heterosexuals, women against men, and indigenous against whites.

The fuel that feeds indigenism is the same that fed the dialectic of classical Marxism: lies.

The indigenous narrative tells us that everything that came to America after 1492 was bad. However, the Spanish crown promoted interracial marriages five centuries before they could be celebrated in the United States. If the English had arrived earlier, not only would they not have allowed such unions, but the Native Americans would have been wiped off the map.

On the other hand, it was the bearded ones who taught the natives the use of the wheel. In the same way, they ended the customs of sacrificing enemies and consuming their meat that the Aztecs and Incas practiced.

For the indigenist militants it is necessary to decolonize and erase all the Catholic legacy of our culture. These radicals reject mestizos in their ranks (they consider them descendants of prostitutes and rapists). Paradoxically, most of these activists have never set foot in an indigenous community in their lives, much less farmed the land. They are fakers who use the indigenous cause to make a political career. That is the real danger, because these rioters are responsible for the destruction of cities in Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.

Indigenism, like all lies, collides with reality. For example, Álvaro García Linera (a white man from the city) speaks of the need to legalize abortion as an instrument of empowerment of native peoples. However, the Bolivian indigenous people have several festivals to celebrate the fertility of the land and its women. Even in the valleys of my native Cochabamba, when there is a drought and little land production, the community members ask the medical centers if any women have had an abortion.

Another example, during the month of May, the women of the Cochabamba valley ask the Lord of Vera Cruz to bless them with a son. This request is accompanied by various religious acts (half Catholic and half Andean), costumbrista and festive. The party lasts for three days. For the indigenous people, the birth rate is closely linked to productivity. Ergo, the ideas of wealth redistribution and abortion seem abhorrent to them, and they are.

But the biggest falsehood of indigenism is pretending to show itself as an indigenous movement. Since their spokespersons are part of NGOs financed by money from the United States and Europe.

In his book, Citizen X, Emilio Martínez explains how George Soros was the great financier of Evo Morales during the 2003 coup d'état. Right now, August 2022, the American Kathryn Ledebur manages the international relations of Evo and a part of the Movement To Socialism.

Indigenism does not defend the indigenous, it uses them as a chess pawn. The lefties need them to come to power and, in this way, suck from the enormous public spending. Your business needs victims, even if they are fake. A round deal if we take into account that this story makes millions of human beings victims.

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