Nothing like waking up to the song of the Wirakchugos that seem to say “have a good day” to me. I go out to the garden to look at them, because they are beautiful and more than great musicians. Yellow with black wings dotted with white. It was a couple that visited me, but their singing was interrupted for a moment by the loud chirping of a large chicken that was looking for more and more food. I knew about this phenomenon, but I didn’t see it, in the nest of the beautiful singers there was a shining cowbird, a black bird with bluish reflections, which lays eggs in the nests of other birds. At birth, the attacker catches the attention of his fake parents who forget to feed him. Sometimes forced stepparents die of exhaustion from the effort of supporting a huge intruder.

I would always like to talk about birds, but these days my mind is enraptured and other topics compel the parable. At university and through my career as a journalist, I met many left-wing militants, among whom I made many friends, despite the fact that I never hid my political support. Some of them became famous leaders of their organizations. Almost all of them had a serious ideological education and were skilled debaters, which I always recognized. Their dream was the triumph of the revolution and the building of socialism, although they did not agree with each other on how to achieve it. It was the bucket of the left into which it arrived, no one knows exactly where, a black and noisy bird that laid a false egg among them: the civil revolution.

At first, all the birds of various sexes, from “democratic socialists” to Maoists, tried to feed the fast-growing surrogates. It did not take long for some of the most educated and intelligent to realize the deception and distance themselves. During the Alianza PAIS regime, there was a great bleeding with the departure of the best fans. But it would be untrue if I did not say that the important images remained and remain in a forged nest, feeding the withered chick of a social movement in which it is impossible to recognize the future they claimed to dream of. Is this broken system, which is nothing more than old bureaucratized mercantilism, which has taken a few knocks that have left it clumsy but continues to function, the promised socialism of the 21st century? They had a decade with enormous resources and managed to paint only the facade of the building in flexgreen. And they couldn’t make changes because the caudillo and his clique did not allow serious ideological development, partly out of ignorance, because their reading did not even reach the popularization booklets, but above all because they did not want to be tied by the model. When the Supreme Court was asked, it spouted nonsense that they were “Gevarists”, but do you honestly believe that there is any evidence of this? Was the future this swamp of corruption, this mediocre, dirty Third World situation? They’re sad, they’re miserable like a couple of Wirakchugos trying to raise a huge hen of a great herding dog, a skorojevic and an opportunistic bird. (OR)