Bolivia in war for Evo

Bolivia in war for Evo: Doctors conflict and the TIPNIS and us

This month of April-May has been very conflicted.

Evo approved a law to force doctors to work for 8 hours and the doctors don't agree on that.



Since that some changes have happened:
- The doctors are not working but the ones for emergencies...
- The students of medicine are in the streets fighting with the police.
- Patients can't receive attention and they have to wait and get worse.
- The whole month there is the smell of the pepper gas in the streets of the downtown.
- If you happen to be near a fight between the police and the students of medicine then you will have to cry, desperate and suffer all this without anywhere to complain...
- There are no announcements that the government will abrogate their law.... and we all suffered this alreadly for a month.

And I ask ? Why can't we enjoy of some time of tranquility here in La Paz ? Why are people always forced to go to the streets and fight for their rights ? And here I have to say that I am not agains that the doctors would work for 8 hours but if they don't want then there is no point to force them to do it!
But it's not that simple... the fact is that: they usually work (after their working hours for the government in public hospitals) in other jobs as doctors too, sometimes they do it in their own offices and sometimes in other hospitals, but the point is that they do that do earn more money. And if the government would force the 8 hours of work then the doctors would be forced to work 2 hours more without any increase in their salaries, which is not correct too.

Here I am impressed with the government because they don't want to facilitate the dialogue with this sector and they just send groups of policemen that throw lots of pepper gas and accompanied with their Neptuno car that throws water to the students.
Here the images are of a right wing-totalitarian government and they don't correspond to a government of a left wing, as many supposed Evo Morales could be.

Evo Morales approves, decides, and make all the decisions of all his government (included what all the ministries of all the departments will do in their investments of important purchases) in his palace of government and makes sure all his decisions will happen the way he already decided.
What is this but not tyranny ?

A few days ago the coca growers took the streets of Cochabamba to make a demonstration to support Evo Morales... and they are the only beneficiaries of the "proceso de cambio" or in English "process of change"... but what change ?
Isn't it real that the government is forcing the doctors to do this ? And even Evo said that if the doctors don't want to work for 8 hours they would bring Cuban doctors to do their jobs.. What is happening with Evo Morales ? He is not the king of Bolivia, he has to realize it, but maybe he is surrounded by people like Alvaro Garcia Linera (a very smart and kind of maquiavelic person) that could be responsible of the violence the government is lately using.

As Evo Morales didn't respect the agreement he signed with the indigenous of the TIPNIS (Territorio indígena y parque nacional Isiboro Secure) and he approved another law to confirm the construction of the road crossing the TIPNIS, then the indigenous of the TIPNIS are coming again to La Paz to stop it.
Which makes me remember that a spokesman of the government said to the doctors something like "ok, the law of the 8 hours won't have effect but stop your demonstrations" but the doctors said they didn't believe the government anymore as they cheated on the indigenous of the TIPNIS not respecting the agreement the president Evo Morales signed with them.

And they are right because if a president doesn't have a word and goes back on his own agreements then all the faith people could have on the government is gone.

Besides, it's well known that the project of the road should have consulted before the project had began and the government should have put the construction of the TIPNIS road out to tender instead to give it directly to the ABC Brazilian company without any tender.

The indigenous of the TIPNIS are coming again to La Paz and they didn't receive the support of some communities loyal to the MAS (politician party of the government). It is also well known that many indigenous of different communities have received bribes of the government in the form of cars and other economic benefits to not support this march to protect the TIPNIS.

Even I voted for Evo in the elections I regret now it and many I know does the same, we all regret it.
What is this government doing ? What really ? I can say that their measures against corruption and in favor the indigenous of the country are not really working... they are just part of a campaign to create a "good image of the government", the constitutions they approved have improved the conditions of Bolivians ?
No.

This president full of arrogance, full of purchases without any sense, full of contracts without any put to tender, full of simple things like playing soccer instead of try to solve the problems of a Third world country, full of discourses on how to protect the "Mother Earth" and how the situation of the indigenous of the country have improved... this president now is lonely with his discourses, he is nothing but his words...

He has to learn: to listen to people, to put the projects to tender, to not buy land nor to have other millions spent just to buy things to China, no to do whatever he thinks just because he can... he has to learn to create peace here too (and not approve reforms like the ones of the doctors), and to cancel all his millionaire spends.

And talking again about the doctors... can you imagine how a person is if he couldn't receive the medical service he needs ? Now imagine that in thousands... that is the situation here... and it's about time that Evo Morales would be less stubborn and that he wouldn't say "the road of the TIPNIS will be constructed no matter anything"... and here I think that it's incredible that we had chosen him as our president, do people always have to chose their tyranny for the next years? I guess that in Bolivia the governments should be approved just with mandates, in that way all the governments would be allowed to make a few things but just them... and we all would be better!
Evo Morales buys useless millionaire things, approve laws that creates conflicts, doesn't put projects to tender, wants to force projects even is they are against the laws (and laws the only thing that preserves peace inside a country and they can change but with the interest to benefit the people as a whole but not to make happy the president .. as he once implied...), doesn't respect indigenous, benefits coca growers (as he is the president of the coca growers of the country...) as a kind of special group that must be benefited and satisfied in first place (and over the whole country interest)

And you know that if there is going to be a consult in the TIPNIS  (now that the whole road is already constructed and the only the part left to be done is the part that would cross the TIPNIS ) also the coca growers will vote there because they live beside the TIPNIS (and many of them are living also inside the TIPNIS in these last 4? years)... what kind of fair consult can we expect from it ?
Besides, I really voted for Evo, and I am ashamed of it... but there are stories of friends that say that their votes were already done when they wanted to vote the last time... and if this is real.. then we can expect nothing from that consult and from any other election in Bolivia in the following years.

Evo should call another election, he should leave and even in Bolivia that we don't have other big politician parties maybe if the indigenous of the TIPNIS would participate in the election they would have a lot of support of the middle class that believed in Evo before.