Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans"

[Jan Klimkowski]

From January 2009, translated into Googlish, some of it allegations, other parts documented from Marinkovic's own mouth:

Bolivia: The Croatian who declared war on Evo Morales

Branco Marinkovic represents the racist elites of Santa Cruz that are endangering their privileges

Landlords, bankers, industrial, political.

Branco Marinkovic (1967, Santa Cruz, Bolivia), is present in the life of the Santa Cruz region from all directions. His family, of Croatian origin, made landfall in eastern Bolivia after World War II.

Today Branco is the visible face, white and successful, the powerful local bourgeoisie. Calls for autonomy, but is accused of secession, balkanization of Bolivia want richer from his Department. It is the Croatian war with the Indians. It is the nemesis of President Evo Morales.

But who is Marinkovic?

His parents, Silvio and Radmila fled Tito's Yugoslavia, having supported the Nazi regime in Croatia.

"They escaped 50 years ago. When I was a kid, going to Yugoslavia and there was the radicalism of the Communist regime," says Marinkovic.

The very idea of socialism touted by Evo Morales was choking. He admires the U.S., where he studied engineering, and despises Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Marinkovic is the visible face, white and successful of the powerful bourgeoisie of Santa Cruz. His family came with nothing to Bolivia and made the Americas a few years. The right-wing governments, especially the military, and gave them benefited repayable loans, land and social privileges to the elite of Santa Cruz. Silvio Marinkovic was linked to them and in less than a generation, raised an entrepreneurial empire.

Branco is his heir. Its properties now include some 10,000 hectares for each of their crops (rice, soybean, sunflower and corn), along with some 15,000 head of cattle. Only IOL oil factory employs 400 people and move $ 100 million annually. To this list we add the property Marinkovic Bank Economic and annual revenue of about $ 300 million.

Everyone knows that Marinkovic is who has the scepter of power in Santa Cruz. From the strategic seat position as president of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, added to their business role, his face darkens its predecessor, the prefect (governor) Ruben Costas. If Evo Morales indigenous embodies the new spirit prevailing in Bolivia and demanding an end to centuries of exploitation, Marinkovic is the guru who leads the souls of Santa Cruz, concerned about maintaining their historic privileges.

The government accuses him of having illegally seized 26,951 hectares of land

In East barons, power in Santa Cruz yesterday and today, researchers Ximena Soruco, Wilfredo Plata and Gustavo Medeiros identified the Civic Committee as "the fundamental political arm of the intellectual elite," which is based on the idea of belonging Santa Cruz community. An identity that, in the service of the Statute of Autonomy passed in 2008 by referendum illegal as Evo Morales, a local society articulates behind the interests of its ruling class. The objective of this elite is to perpetuate their privileges.

Racism toward Indians

To this end, the intellectuals, who "profess antiindio visceral racism", they appropriated indigenous symbols and blanched at Camba (Indian) into the result of crossbreeding with the Creoles. Today, many indigenous cruceños look in the mirror and see a camba. Insult Aymara (indigenous group), their own roots, to affirm the identity blancocéntrica. In contrast, represents the vision Marinkovic civilized, modern, productive and local elite globalization that presents itself.

In fact, the core pillars of the statute is the chapters on natural resources. It is a mechanism for halting land reform that seeks to eliminate the large estates that Morales' goal is mere rhetoric because its implementation is impossible, at least for the time and control the gas revenues, of which 80% is concentrated in Tarija and Santa Cruz.

"Of course it is a shield against the reforms," says sociologist Claudia Peña. A shield against the new constitution to be submitted to referendum on 25 January, and enshrines indigenous land rights, recognition of their language and culture. It also provides that estates can not exist (does not define its extension) or unproductive land.

This is a chapter that reveals to Marinkovic. According to the Vice Ministry of Lands, Santa Cruz leader has illegally seized 26,951 hectares for the communal lands of Guarayos. The same charge depends on other estates, obtained from persecution and enslavement of Chiquitano and Quechua.

Balkanization

"If the government continues unabated, there will be civil war. They now have the word," cried Marinkovic this year. His threats give strength to those who accuse him of being at the head of an army in Santa Cruz to balkanize and divide the Bolivian territory if it moves the Constitution of La Paz. Marinkovic denies. But again threaten: "If they attack us, what I think will not happen, they must run away from our city. This I guarantee.

Outside the military course, Marinkovic funds and rules over the so-called Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC). This vigilante group, which moves in modern 4x4 trucks with the Nazi swastika, is dedicated to attacking those who reject the model proposed by the civic autonomy.

On the streets of the wealthier areas of Santa Cruz is common to read graffiti reading "do patriot, kill an Indian." Nobody removed. Some are worn of old. Here, whiteness is a privilege. Branco is the whitest of all.

The Unionists are back. Also of roadblocks and attacks by Indians. This promotion of racism has been denounced by the International Federation of Human Rights, based in Paris. But Marinkovic, who has criticized the red ponchos with the alleged armed wing of Evo Morales, justified the action of the UJC. After each battle, and some of them ended with deaths, such as Sunday, June 4 during the day of voting Marinkovic Staff responded that Gore has responded to a "provocation."

FEDERICO PEÑA - BUENOS AIRES - 05/01/2009 08:00 Federico Peña - BUENOS AIRES - 05/01/2009 08:00

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