By Ollantay Itzamná
In recent months, the menu of the corporate media and the efforts of the pro-American alternative media in Guatemala, in addition to furtive network actors on social networks, installed in the international and national news spectrum, the concern of: “the democracy of Guatemala is in danger”, “there is a coup d’état in progress”, “corruption is invading the State”, etc.
In this media context, as in 2015, the North American Embassy, the USAID, undersecretaries/assistants of the US administration, from public and private spaces, engulfed the popular effervescence to the limit of pushing them to the impoverishing indefinite national strike (of various weeks). They installed in the popular imagination the anxiety of: «We are going to return to the time of internal war. “They are going to kill us… We must demonstrate.”
Ironic American slogans
State co-option. There is no co-option of the State, because the bicentennial failed State was born by and for corruption (so that the Creoles would keep the taxes of the metropolis that the indigenous people paid). In that sense, this State is constitutively corrupt/corrupting. It was born co-opted by the insane passions of its founders and heirs. Fighting corruption would be “killing” the bicentennial Creole State.
Democracy at risk. Democracy is not in danger in Guatemala, because democracy is what is least known and exists for the vast majority of the country. Here, as in other places, democracy is called the grotesque act of “voting every 4 years” for the scoundrels most skilled in theft and so that they continue stealing, and further impoverishing their potential voters to trap them in “greater situations of scarcity.” ».
Possibly what was in danger in Guatemala was that the side of those obedient and servile to Washington would not be able to assume command to direct the industry of corruption and institutionalized looting, and thus, the North American administration would lose control of said business.
Coup d’état in progress. The next Creole Coup d’état, if it occurs, will be a product of the conditions of feasibility of North American interference for two centuries (validity of the Monroe Doctrine) that has prevented, by all means, the emergence of an autonomous political community in Guatemala, and sabotage of all efforts to create public institutions. But, ironically, our cognitive conditions of being colonized and of coloniality make us believe that “the colonizer will be our redeemer.”
North American agents will review their “troops” in Guatemala and El Salvador
In this context of effervescence and socio-political confusion, even with onegized or manipulated indigenous people (sleeping in the streets in defense of the bosses’ democracy and to oxygenate the racist Creole State), Philip Gordon, assistant and advisor to the House, visits Guatemala and El Salvador. Blanca, and Isobel Goleman, deputy administrator of USAID (distributor of tips/dollars for institutions, NGOs, companies,…, well behaved with the US), say, to meet and evaluate democratic processes, migration, etc., with their political, social and cultural agents.
Note: Gordon represents the “club” (strong hand) and Goleman represents the “carrot” (charity). This North American policy of carrot and stick (Monroe Doctrine) turns 200 years old on December 2.
Guatemala and El Salvador were two of the countries most humiliated and dispossessed by the Monroe Doctrine policy. But the analysts and researchers of these countries also lost the “cultural battle” and have little or no persuasion about this ironic and burlesque gringo presence that draws applause and praise from the impoverished population.
The crudest thing about this bicentennial theater of “North American democratizing kindness” is that while these stick/carrot agents in their passionate stories condemn, threaten and censure the attempts at the “rupture of the constitutional order in Guatemala; In El Salvador they applaud, celebrate, and publicly promote the breaking of the constitutional order.
In El Salvador, the current president, Nayib Bukele, in the style of the imprisoned former Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández, against the constitutional prohibition, is campaigning for his presidential re-election. The prohibition of presidential re-election in these three countries is part of the stone, unmodifiable articles of their respective political constitutions. But, while in Guatemala unconstitutionality deserves a stick, in El Salvador, it deserves a carrot.
Wherever you look, whenever you want to see, this lethal theater of bicentennial North American interference will continue to further entrench the conditions of colonialism and coloniality, even in the most privileged cultural niches of these peoples.
In this bicentennial of the validity of the Moroe Doctrine, as in 1821 (relief in the colonial administration against our peoples), the task of emancipation/decolonization, of the creation of a plurinational state institutionality, continues to be an urgent challenge. And, it is urgent to renew forces to advance in the cultural battle where we have already been losing ground.
Ollantay Itzamna. Defender of the Rights of Mother Earth and Human Rights from Abya Yala.
