By Adolfo Gilly
September 22, 2008 -- Mexico -- “The problem in Bolivia is that the country is undergoing a process of reforms, without
abandoning the democratic framework, but both the opposition and the
government act as if they were facing a revolution”, stated Marco
Aurelio García, a close international affairs advisor to [Brazil's president] Lula,
according to an article by José Natanson in the newspaper Pagina 12.
Allowing
myself to not take this declaration literally, but instead in an ironic
sense, Marco Aurelio García, an intelligent and well-informed man,
can’t help but realise that if the two protagonists of the Bolivian
confrontation believe that they are dealing with a revolution, this
belief is the best confirmation that, in effect, it is. The vice-president of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera, on the other hand, has said that what
is happening is “an increase in elites, an increase in rights, and a
redistribution of wealth. This, in Bolivia, is a revolution.”