BY: Armando Duran.
As noted last week, in mid-2010, the country's situation was explosive.
From this point of view, the regime saw September parliamentary elections as an essential outlet for the political pressure cooker Venezuela not to burst into pieces. However, in Hugo Chávez's calculations did not include the possibility that their qualified party losing its majority in the National Assembly, a setback that required the immediate enactment of the Enabling Act and the rapid adoption of a package of laws "socialist." However, to disguise the illegitimacy of these measures, the regime has been forced since then to present a more human face and democratic. good example of this tactical necessity was the visit of Minister Tarek el Aissami students on hunger strike at the gates of the OAS, which resulted in the release of seven political prisoners, revealed three significant events: a , Venezuela is not way of coming to any socialist sea of \u200b\u200bhappiness, but just barely trying to achieve some political normalization and languid style of the old regime ; two, although they have denied more than a thousand times in Venezuela other political prisoners are ; three , the judiciary is subject to the personal will of Chávez. Exprópiese, métanmelo prisoner them go, continue to control commands that the supposedly independent branches of government are complying exactly presidential.
Three other recent events suggest that really nothing has changed in Venezuela.
Three other recent events suggest that really nothing has changed in Venezuela.
First, tangible demonstration of official contempt for the actual values \u200b\u200bof democracy, imposed Miraflores General Henry Rangel Silva to deliver the keynote address in tribute to Simon Bolivar civilian parliamentary par excellence of 15 February 1819, when he yielded to the legislators of the Gran Colombia, assembled in Angostura, absolute political power he held by virtue of their status as supreme commander of the Army. Remember to General Rangel Silva? The same captain coup of February 4 to the rank of general in chief for having warned Venezuelans that the troops under his command in any way allow Chavez's electoral defeat in 2012 elections.
The second mockery of the system, forced by the circumstances of the moment to give himself a coat of varnish urgent democratic, was to allow the questioning of his ministers by a multiparty National Assembly. The effect of this move has been a truly lamentable spectacle, whose most painful expression corresponded to Minister Jorge Giordani, econometric formula in hand, to attribute blame for the runaway inflation experienced by Venezuelans, most of the continent and one of the worst in the world, the oil strike of 2002 and the governments of the so-called fourth republic. What nerve! For now, the ultimate insult to the intelligence and sensitivity of Venezuelans uttered Chavez himself, who after ten days of inexplicable silence has now added his voice to those of Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega to denounce the imperialist offensive against Gadhafi and order Nicolas Maduro, by the same social networks that have served the Islamic peoples of North Africa and the Middle East to organize their fight against autocracy in the region, drive them to the enemies of the Libyan brother. "Let's Foreign Minister Nicolas le wrote a tweet to your favorite minister, "another lesson to give them that right pitiyanqui! Viva Libya and independence! Gaddafi faces a civil war! ".
overcome the obstacles of April 11, the oil strike, of abstention 2005 of the 2007 referendum, parliamentary elections will be presented Chávez as an ideal springboard to steer the country in the direction of the desired normalization policy that would allow up to 2012 without major upheavals.
overcome the obstacles of April 11, the oil strike, of abstention 2005 of the 2007 referendum, parliamentary elections will be presented Chávez as an ideal springboard to steer the country in the direction of the desired normalization policy that would allow up to 2012 without major upheavals.
To his misfortune, not likely to be. The growing domestic crisis and international isolation, especially after of this wave of change in the Islamic world, takes away this time Chávez their usual source of democratic simulation. Moreover, solidarity with Gadhafi further isolates the civilized world.
After this, what president is the commander? Soledad "at the end of the dark tunnel of failure? On possible options for Chavez to escape this trap of history, will speak on Monday.