By Hugo Jos\u00e9 Su\u00e1rez <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last Saturday morning [early September], my new book began circulating. Disenchantment. 14 years of Evo Morales' government<\/em> (Editorial 3600, available on the Internet) in which I critically analyze the political actions of the former president and particularly my involvement in the \"process of change\", which went from hope to deep disappointment. Many people reacted, I am grateful that it is being read and circulated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The most curious thing was that, before twenty-four hours had passed, someone called my house in Bolivia - I don't know how he acquired the number - and, hidden on the other side of the receiver, left a question that was really an accusation: \"How much did Doria Medina pay you for El Desencanto? <\/p>\n\n\n\n I don't know the origin of the call, although I sense its source, let's start with the obvious. Nobody paid me to write the book. Or rather, Doria Medina did not, whom I do not know personally and from whom I have never received a fifth (and of course I do not support his candidacy). The institution responsible for my monthly salary is the National Autonomous University of Mexico; I have been a tenured researcher there for more than a decade and I write freely and responsibly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that is not what is important. What the call reveals is the desire to control thought, the impossibility of accepting other ideas, the need to homogenize a discourse that polarizes and flattens differences. For this reason, I think it is appropriate to bring up two reflections that are in the introduction to my book: why I wrote it and where I am writing it from in political terms: \"I wanted to publish this book because this is the story of a bet, perhaps not mistaken, perhaps na\u00efve, but certainly deviated and decomposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The critical tone of these pages is not to forget the mistakes. Complacency is a bad advisor, especially with politicians. The experience of the Morales government, successful, contradictory and complex, should have been the perfect occasion for a deep and critical assessment of the limits and successes of a progressive agenda, but what we heard was an overwhelming wave of applause and visceral defense of the indefensible. As a critical collectivity, we missed the opportunity to move forward based on transparent self-assessment of mistakes, many preferring the trench and fostering the mutual praise brigade. This book is a dissonant note in that melody\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n With respect to my political position, I maintain: \"I write from a critical, ecumenical left-wing position that does not obey bosses, that does not promote monopolies of truth and interpretation, with its own voice, undisciplined, passionate about diversity, irreverence, autonomy. A left that does not bow to statues, nor dogmas, nor learned men; that does not bow to the intellectual or political guidelines of a central committee or of the 'historical leaders'. A libertarian left that, in the face of the rottenness it sees in front of it, bets that another left is possible\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is little more to say. Hopefully the book will help us to move forward, avoiding stumbling over the same stone twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hugo Jos\u00e9 Su\u00e1rez is Bolivian, PhD in Sociology, professor and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. <\/mark>This column was published in El Deber and shared by the author for P360P. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Por Hugo Jos\u00e9 Su\u00e1rez En la ma\u00f1ana del s\u00e1bado pasado [principios de septiembre], empez\u00f3 a circular mi nuevo libro El desencanto. 14 a\u00f1os del gobierno de Evo Morales (Editorial 3600, disponible en internet) en el que analizo cr\u00edticamente el accionar pol\u00edtico del expresidente y particularmente mi implicaci\u00f3n en el \u201cproceso de cambio\u201d, que pas\u00f3 de […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-1458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usworld","8":"tag-ccj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}It is a small example of how people and projects can change, how politics has multiple faces and how power can distort the best intentions. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n