Wednesday, November 02, 2005

More Demons Loose in Bolivia - The Reappearance of the Nazis


LA PAZ: They weren't dead, kind readers, just hiding in their dung pile. The Nazis (the Radical National Socialist Union of Bolivia, or UNRSB in its Spanish initials) have taken advantage of these days of uncertainty to return to the public stage. And this correspondent cannot believe that it is just a coincidence. Because while the political class (the political parties of all stripes and the state powers) dedicate themselves to negotiating in the darkness, while gas becomes scarce in the homes of the city of El Alto (for nearly a month supplies have been short), while the Santa Cruz oligarchy makes its latest efforts to maintain its system of life, men (and perhaps women) appear who display the most decedent and repugnant traits of our recent history: the fascists, the racists, the liars, the genocidal...

It is well known that in South America, during various countries' bloody periods of dictatorship, a generation of military men harbored strong and sometimes well-hidden sympathies for Adolf Hitler and his ideas. In Bolivia, where racism is typical fare (in La Paz, in Santa Cruz, in Cochabamba, and in other cities), this correspondent has seen more than one "white power" skinhead/// and in fact, the famous Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was found in Bolivia, where he lived and "worked" for years helping run the state's secret police.

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