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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The Nature of the Venezuelan right

15 years after the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan Opposition (MUD) has still not won a single election, except a victory in a referendum of constitutional amendments that would like Cuba entrench socialism in the country. Instead of making reasonable alternatives to socialist policies, instead of creating opposition bills in the legislature, instead of making reasonable solutions to economic, inflation, and insecurity in the country, all this time they've been trying to regain power. Not regain power within in a system of democratic constitutional order, but outside it.

The end result is the ongoing coups, insurrection, media and economic war has been on going since 10 years ago. And now it has led to the Cucuta Connection, which will be detailed at a later post (Hopefully). Thankfully SEBIN found out about it and those suspects are in prison awaiting trial.

Mission Veradad (Mission Truth), posted a column explaining why the MUD (Democratic Unity Roundtable) is focused on gaining power back instead of earning their power back by actually solving problems.
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With two months to ask the head of Aveledo, the MUD still struggles to assume the chair moves so gloomy character. The MUD is divided with the creation of the MID. For one walk guarimbeo enthusiasts, on the other, those who say they support (but I do not support it), trying to protect their tiny political capital.

Capriles collapsed in the clearest being ostracized, hated by many who were his followers, for "ambiguous", "demobilizing" and wrong way to "do politics". Hardly anyone says anything including Leopoldo, Ledezma wants to be President, MariCori plays offside by election campaign. Finally.

In no easy circumstances for the country, in the midst of a tough economic warfare, anyone could believe that the opposition could have assumed a vanguard role that would allow Capriles to gain space. It has not been. By contrast, right after Maduro was elected came electoral defeats (such as municipal elections) division, demobilization, loss of support and failure.

The guarimba [insurrection] only served to gain more ground to Chavismo and to generate a loss of cohesion between the leaders and the followers of the right. Despite the enormous resources coming from abroad, the substantial pension to the internal businessmen that financed the leadership of the right means at their service and a large base of support  - that is a basic dissatisfaction with the Government to support them - right still called "opposition" and his name is unsuccessful.

But such a failure must be explained in some way. Review what can be some variables that affect outcome as fatal to them. These are essentially expressions of the fundamental codes with the right "know how to do politics." These are issues of congenital right behavior, formulas, patterns, reproduced in high places and come downstream. They are elements of his own nature that have inhibited their political success and that it is impossible to discard.

-Personalist Business entity: As a matter of policy and the pseudo inherited from the older AD-COPEI tradition, MUD, or MID and etceteras, are a small conclave of economic franchises, business groups who fight each other in the dispute political power was fragmented after the arrival of Chavez. Their struggles for quotas for elected office, for nominations for presence in the media, preventing effective unitary, cohesive and amalgamated political practice.

The MUD is a small group of party leaders who fail to agree with each other and expect to lead an entire country with millions of Chavistas that they are not going to be subordinated. Despite such political upheaval, the right-wing media have managed to paint the face of his leadership making it look like a "unit block" that can "unite the country", stripping it of its client, business nature, and governed by sectarian and personalistic projects .

The MUD  - and its predecessors -   born as a group of parties and economic sectors that lost privileges and tried to recover, for that reason they are forces of democratic corporate-party origin. That is their nature. That is its essential component. They can become anything, but are not and will not be a popular alternative.

It is true that almost any country, alternatives become corporate power. That happens all the time. The issue is the context of Chavez's Venezuela, where the logic of the forces of social direction must be genuine, popular, with a deep sense of identity with the people, in the exercise of power to distribute wealth into social benefits was imposed . It is difficult that to be credible in the MUD where your family, business and partisan caste tillers kill each other. A policy option loosely to the inner, more economic and media power have, is doomed to failure.

Negative Community: The other day I went through a pendejo average article in appearance, and to associate politically acquired otherwise. It had to do with "negative people and communities (groups)." One of the signs of people and groups with this feature were "not to promote what they like rather mentioned and always promote what they do not like.". The opposition from leaders to followers is a negative political community.

We back this up with more questions: If the opposition has mayors, governors and congressmen why opponents do not usually broadcast their work, or mention or comment? Why do we never see opposition leaders speaking well of the work he and Capriles being a leader?

If opponents follow their leaders, why  almost  no gestures we support their work ?, Why do not we see gestures of support for management? If so and so did this, managed this or did that, why his political opinion is reduced to the complaint and the eternal despite all what the revolution is wrong, but do not mention what for them would be good attributes Right in the government?

If they assume that everything is now bad and everything was better before, why not publish at least one of a lavish photic bridge was adeca? It seems that the positive and come from themselves, is an affront to the cult of the negative. The contravention.

The point is that denial, negativity and bad vibes perennial discontent, became a "way of doing politics," and the formula is the negation of the Venezuelan yes. It is the equation of denying the positive, affirming the negative.

In a changing society of Venezuela, where he takes on more purposeful spaces and "doing", "solving" is more grip on the public imagination, it is difficult to build a "language of hope" among the gendarmes the negative. While they have managed to expand their support base at the expense of discontent, while unknown language imposed by the Chávez era, of hope "doing, achieving and consolidating" to the detriment of the historic "put me to me that I do what I do well. "

That subjective game, that semiotic component of the right, is the "malaise speech", a dangerous recipe for failure if it comes from the hand of the same faces from the malaise of the past and present:-AD, COPEI, and derivatives adecos copeyanos The oil strike, the April coup, those of guarimbas, economic warfare, currency speculation, cadivismo, unleashed speculation, the media shows, and et cetera.

Ethics of power for power : A simple sentence may summarize this part: "The right is more busy trying to gain power, that working for the welfare of the country and its people." Perhaps the only clear strategic cohesive element that itself has the right to take power, which is currently fragmented: Chavez has the political power, the right has economic power. The right wants it all. The nature of power is identical to that of capital in capitalism; tends to be concentrated in few hands, and that's what you try to republish the Venezuelan right; it is an attitude of his own nature.

For many, their very specific action simply want back the power is more than apparent that ethics makes clear his desire for political power and thereby extend its economic power. People notice. That is obvious.

They have not understood that the forms of political power are changing, they have not understood the dialectical question of our political change means that from Chavez "our leaders must look like us, be like us." That explains how the right has not been raised as a popular choice; because it is not, they are not.

The formula of wealthy children of wealthy in the political arena has only to put on the electoral Card class contradictions, understood as political mistakes like behavior ethics of power for power. A right could serve demagogues leading candidates with a painted area face, but between the class language, sometimes racist, fascist and stigma have made Chavez, will be difficult to wash face any more mud and grime get stronger. Hence Chavez sectors they have no identity try to seduce them. Their failure is not only election, is symbolic, is subjective.

In Venezuela, the only thing that is not changing is the aesthetics of Venevision. But on the street, in the imagination, projecting new forms, new symbols, new codes of cultural identity, political identity. In the 90s we were told that this country needed a "manager" who came from the privileged classes "so I would not need to steal." A Capriles he tried to sell him as such, but the formula did not work reissued. We ended up choosing Mature, emphatically claiming their origin as Metrobus driver.

Today people start concretely associate entrepreneurship with large economic woes. Responsibility for economic data is not only ascribed to the Government. In the internal crisis of the right entrepreneurship as "the lead" becomes more visible, and this creates subjectivity to the public that the same visible faces of speculation are erected themselves as the solution.

Trying to sweep under the rug this paradox, many continue to support the right, but others notice such ambiguity, to the point that the guarimbas what has grown is the basis of "desapoyo" or "rejection" of the opposition leadership. Only the ethics of power for power makes it possible to suppress the popular nature must have a political movement, and that is played socially in our codes. Therefore, in our language, we associate "sifrina" with "skinny", "middle class" with "opposition", "dealer" with "speculator". Are these expressions historical result of the practice of open and notorious done right, and how has resemantizado Chavez.

To conclude

The right despite its weakness is not a political force to be underestimated. Historic reversals have been around the political context, there are a very dangerous force for the Bolivarian revolution. Visible face of this threat, the task of revolutionaries is to build a revolution revolutionary consistency, more inclusive and radically. More amalgamated ideologically, organizationally more painstaking.

Is that the formula to reproduce more clearly the nature of antagonism between them and us.

Source:http://misionverdad.com/columnistas/la-naturaleza-de-la-derecha-venezolana
Translation Based on Google Translate
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The entire article reminds of this video (It's in English, so don't worry):




This begs the question: Why Venezuela does not have a functional opposition? An functional opposition that would have given ideas of how to solve actual problems there? To paraphrase Egyptian Cleric Talaat Zahran during the 2014 Gaza War (Operation Protective Edge):

As for mobilizing the sifrina to support Venezuela… Driving the Chavistas out of Venezuela is, indeed, a duty, but who do we really support when we support the MUD? We need to know what the goal is and who the leader is. Those sifrina in Venezuela neither a goal nor an emir. They are power obsessed and money obsessed, so they must not be supported. 

They started their guarimba groups against the Chavistas, in order to worry the Chavistas and ostensibly force them to attack them. It's perfectly clear that MUD and their economic friends coordinate what places in Venezuela should be targeted. Therefore, MUD must not be supported in this struggle. Furthermore, some of them – especially the leaders – are absent in their government duties or imprisoned. 

Henrique Capriles is absent from his Governor duties and not doing anything, while Leopoldo López are jailed in the Military Prison in Ramo Verde because of a potential assaination plot from his own collition. Only the sifrinan Venezuelans people get beat in the crossfire. 4,000 people were arrested on the first three months. 

This is a MUD-led conspiracy against the Venezuelan people. This is a clear case of "rooster-baiting," the purpose of which is to drag the United States into a war against Venezuela. This would be going into war pell-mell. This is what the MUD and their economic bosses want. The United States must not be dragged into this.

In short, they only care about one thing: Getting back the government power from Chavistas, and using that to get the money that the Government makes from oil sales. Like politicians, actually trying to solve problems involves work. For every time you see them complain about the Big 3 issues in Venezuela, they have not offered a single reasonable solution or plan. Not one. Instead you have different factions of the MUD doing their own strategies to getting back power, this along with the irregular warfare via multiple fronts in order to weaken the government.

These multiple fronts include economic warfare, media warfare, political warfare, and civil insurrection. This has grown to actual political terrorism thanks to some people in Columbia. All of this instead of solving problems, they create or exacerbate problems to make the MUD look good come election time. Instead each one of them have backfired and in the long-run made the MUD's problems worse.

Despite all of this, the Venezuelan country has been much stronger, the people are happier with chavistas despite problems, and there government is still working hard to solve problems despite irregular warfare. Meanwhile, the MUD has been a 15 year losing streak, which will going to be a 16 year losing streak once they lose the National Assembly elections and Presidential Recall vote since they don't offer any real solution to the Big three problems other than political drama and social-economic warfare.

At the same time the PSUV should not be complacent and underestimate what the right-ring opposition can do when they're desperate. They've lost a replacement election in San Cristobal because they did not focus on local issues. They must prepare for anything that the right-wing may chuck in front of them. The price of freedom, or in this case the freedom of all people in a socialist country, Including workers, farmers, intellectuals, and minorities who have gained so much in the past 15 years, is eternal vigilance from those who threaten it.

Monica Spear's Murderers brought to Justice

Monica Spear's murder in January 2014 sparked a huge debate in Venezuela in regards to it's insecurity problem, and was used as a building block for the guarimba insurrection or the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection of 2014. While all of that was occurring, CICIP, the Venezuelan Criminal Investigation Police, was busy investigating the case and just now on yesterday there was a court case.

Venezuela does has the second-highest peacetime murder rate, just below of El Salvador, and it's city San Salvador.
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<i>A court in Venezuela has sentenced three men to lengthy jail sentences for the killing of Venezuelan beauty queen Monica Spear in January.

The three had pleaded guilty.

Ms Spear, 29, and her British partner, Thomas Berry, were shot dead in January in front of their five-year-old daughter during a roadside robbery.

UN figures suggest that Venezuela has the second-highest peacetime murder rate in the world, but the brutality of the crime shocked the country.

Prosecutors said the three men were part of a larger gang which targeted motorists along a highway leading from Valencia to Puerto Cabello.

The court said seven other people were still on trial for the crime but had denied the charges.

The sentences for the three men range between 24 and 26 years in jail.

The family, who lived in the US, was on a visit to Ms Spear's home country when they were targeted.

They were travelling at night from the city of Merida to the capital, Caracas, when their car hit a sharp object, puncturing two tyres.

While they waited for breakdown assistance, they were ambushed by the armed gang.

When the couple and their daughter hid inside the car, they were shot at by the robbers.

Ms Spear and Mr Berry died instantly. Their daughter, Maya, was shot in the leg.

The murder of the popular beauty queen, who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, prompted demonstrations against the country's high crime rate.

President Nicolas Maduro promised to respond with "an iron fist" and said he would make tackling crime one of the government's top priorities.

Last week, he announced his government would invest $47m (£29m) to further expand a plan to disarm civilians.

But opposition activists say impunity and corruption remain rampant and accuse his government of doing too little to tackle insecurity.</i>

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29339924
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Three men convicted of murdering a former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband this year were sentenced to at least 24 years in jail in a case that shook the crime-ridden South American nation, authorities said.

Monica Spear, 29, a soap opera actress, and Thomas Berry, 39, died after being attacked when their car broke down at night on a highway in central Venezuela in January.

The 2004 Miss Venezuela winner lived in the United States but was vacationing in her homeland at the time. The pair's 5-year-old daughter survived but took a bullet in her leg.

Three men confessed to their involvement in the murder, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Jean Carlos Colina, 19, got a 26-year sentence, while Jose Ferreira Herrera, 18 and Nelfrend Jimenez Alvarez, 21, were jailed for 24 years, the statement said. Four other men, one woman, and two adolescents still face proceedings in the case.

The case devastated Venezuelans who saw it as a particularly awful symbol of the violent crime they have long suffered.

Venezuela's official homicide rate late year was 39 per 100,000 inhabitants, but local non-government organizations put the figure at nearly twice that for a total of 24,000 deaths.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said beating violent crime is a top priority and spoke movingly about Spear's death at the time. His critics say state anti-crime plans do not tackle root causes, such as impunity for many criminals, corrupt judges and complicity by some poorly paid police.

(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN0HJ03A20140924
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It is worth mentioning that despite the iron fist Maduro promises, the country does not have the death penalty and was THE first countries to abolish it after gaining independence. There is also no life imprisonment, as the maximum sentence of any serious crimes is 30 years.

This will be one of the most buried stories in Venezuela as it was one of a series of events that has contributed towards the Guarimba Insurrection on Youth Day on Feb. 12. As this case is officially closed, Monica Spear and Thomas Berry can finally rest in peace.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

TNT's crime drama "Legends" creates controversy over misrepresenting Venezuela.

I don't watch much television. These days most of my entertainment consists of netflix, anime, and video games (read: PSO2 and Battlefield 4). For some reason cable channel TNT is making the news rounds in Venezuela for a scene in the crime drama "Legends" where the protagonist was torturing a terrorist for information on who is buying his biological weapons.

In the episode in question, titled "Lords of War," the star of the show tortures a terrorist "24"-style, demanding to know who is buying his chemical weapons. Eventually the terrorist splutters, "Maduro! PSUV! They're worried about the civil unrest in Venezuela."

From Axis of Logic


While there was much international criticism and outright opposition to Venezuela's treatment of those involved the civil insurrection of February(for all the wrong reasons), the Venezuelan government was never accused of using chemical weapons. The only "chemical" weapons used were non-lethal tear gas, which was used by both the Bolivarian National Guard and the Bolivarian National Police. As a country that for the most by abides by the rule of constitutional and constitutional order, they would be stupid to buy such chemical weapons to actually cause harm. You simply don't make your problems worse. As such, the government mostly let the civil insurrection burn out over the course of 4-5 months.


The news was first reported by the well known Chavista Aporrea news portal and originally reported by the public newspaper Correo del Orinoco.
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4th Generation War in Action: TNT series Legends accuses Maduro of buying biological weapons for use against protesters.

By: Correo del Orinoco / Aporrea.org | Monday, 09/01/2014 1:35 PM

Through TNT, Monsanto, was last night accused the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, want to buy a biological bomb to use against protesters seeking to unseat him.

In TNT's new series "Legends", specifically the third episode of the first season (13:38 min), one of the terrorists is questioned by one of the FBI agents. The criminal is face down and says "okay, okay, is the VX." The agent asks, "Who are you buying?" And the detainee says: "I do not know, there is a proxy".

In the scene, which lasts about 19 seconds, ask the agent "and who is the agent?". Immediately, the terrorist says: "Maduro, United Socialist Party of Venezuela. They are concerned about civil unrest in Venezuela." 


The VX mentioned the terrorist on the scene, is an oleaginous considered a powerful nerve agent chemical weapon. It was created in 1952 by researchers at Porton Down, England. In 1958 the British government sold its VX technology to the United States in exchange for information on thermonuclear weapons.

Not the first time that American multinationals incorporate in their series, talks to refer to Venezuela. Even, have been incorporated in some video games, missions to end the "dictatorship in Venezuela."

TNT is a cable television and satellite television belonging to the oligopoly of the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). United States, Latin America and Spain, are regions are reaching their productions.

TBS belongs to Time Warner, which also owns CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, TCM TruTV...among dozens of other corporations. Time Warner is one of the ten mega-corporations that control the global communications industry.




Source: http://aporrea.org/medios/n256981.html
Translation Based on Google Translate

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The third episode of "Legends" entitled "Lords of War" was broadcast in the United States on 8/27/2014, which was four months after the initial unrest was over. The production of the episode started while the insurrection was ongoing, and the script writer needed an idea. This idea was gained from the insurrection in Venezuela. Problem is that he may not actually following the news on how the government was actually handling it.

CONTEL which is the National Telecommunication Commission, immediately opened an investigation regarding the episode

Broadcast on USA channel TNT: Conatel open investigation for assault on Venezuela in series American Legends

Caracas, September 2 - The National Telecommunications Commission of Venezuela (Conatel) initiated a process of research on media manipulation that exposes the American Legends series, against Venezuela and President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro.

The Minister of Communication Information Delcy Rodriguez, through his Twitter account,@DrodriguezMinci, said that "lies and manipulations against President Nicolas Maduro Legends series, we ask Conatel opening a thorough investigation."

In the third episode of said fictitious television series, a terrorist accused President Maduro acquire a chemical weapon that would be used against civilians at the scene observed the terrorist being interrogated by an FBI agent, who asks, "For whom do You are buying (chemical weapon called XV)" and the arrested said: "I do not know, it was a proxy". When asked about the identity of that person, he responds: "Maduro, United Socialist Party of Venezuela. They are concerned about the unrest of civilians in Venezuela."

Minister Rodríguez added that "the Legends series, broadcast by American channel 'TNT', foreshadows a typical Hollywood script imperial actions against legitimate rulers." Director General Conatel, William Castillo, too reported on his Twitter account, that on instructions from the Minister Rodríguez "tomorrow Conatel will open a probe into the case of the Legends series, broadcast on subscription television."

Source: http://www.aporrea.org/medios/n257020.html
Translated based on Google Translate
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Later on 9/2/2014, 21st Century Fox made an apology to President Maduro

The explanation does not convince Fox 21: Company production of "Legends": Sincerely apologize to President Maduro

Fox 21, the producer of the police drama "Legends" which is owned by Twenty-First Century Inc, apologized to President Nicolas Maduro for the incident. It is unknown how was the apology, if it was made by Twitter or by letter or word conference.

"Obviously 'Legends' is a work of fiction," said Fox 21. "The producers did not intend to say that the show reported facts when mentioned the name of President Maduro. We sincerely apologize to the president."

If it was a work of fiction Why, for example, not then named Obama? Why they mentioned the United Socialist Party of Venezuela?

Not much accuracy to fiction?

Venezuelan government lambasted the television series "Legends" broadcast on American network TNT, by a scene in which a character says President Maduro and his party plan to purchase a biological weapon.

The Minister of Communication, Delcy Rodriguez said showed the fictional show lies and manipulations of the president of the country, where you can see the series through pay television services. Ie:. Amid planet "Legends Series American channel transmitted by TNT foreshadows the typical imperial actions against legitimate rulers Hollywood script," the officer wrote in his Twitter account,DrodriguezMinci on Monday night.

During the third episode, the protagonist played by British actor Sean Bean in an interrogation question who is behind the purchase of a "VX", a biological weapon, device to another character who says: "There is an intermediary...Maduro, PSUV (United Socialist Party). they concerned about civil unrest in Venezuela."

Fox 21's apology is not convincing.

Source: http://www.aporrea.org/medios/n257062.html
Translation based on Google Translate
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Now here is the actual quotation in actual English:

“Legends is obviously a work of fiction,” Fox 21 said. “The producers did not intend to imply that the show was reporting any actual events when it mentioned President Maduro's name. We sincerely apologise to President Maduro.”

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/venezuela-blasts-tv-show-for-maduro-slur-1.1745197

Then why did they mentioned "PSUV", "Maduro", and "unrest".

This type of misrepresentation of Venezuela is not new:

In 2006, the government led by the late President Hugo Chavez accused a U.S. gaming company of doing Washington's bidding by releasing a shoot 'em up computer game [Mercinaries 2]based on the overthrow of an imaginary Venezuelan "tyrant." 

Last year, the U.S. spy drama "Homeland" portrayed Venezuela as a lawless hellscape. An outlaw character was depicted hiding out in a Caracas skyscraper-turned-slum with thugs who killed people and molested children with impunity. No official repercussions followed.

From Axis of Logic 

There is another theory: Since the show is fictional, they don't feel the need to be at least accurate in depiction or actions of a foreign person or country. Since it's entertainment, and most Americans are not aware of foreign countries unless it's a very major event of violence or political conflict, they would care less. Besides, television companies exist to make money, not be at least accurate of their actual actions people outside their production country.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

"One can’t keep playing around with Maduro’s assassin government and its insincere calls for peace"


On March 20, 2014. Political Commentator Pompeyo Marquez written a essay called "Clear Objective: One can’t keep playing around with Maduro’s assassin government and its insincere calls for peace" on the moderate by opposition newspaper "Ultimas Noticias". The piece clearly did not said anything about a coup against the Maduro government, but did called for a "transitional government" to restore a "Civil Republic" and "Democracy", and that the opposition must "stand united" against Maduro's socialist government.
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POMPEYO MÁRQUEZ  - Clear Objective  
March 20, 2014

One can not keep playing into Maduro's assassin government , with it's insincere calls for peace

In every struggle for freedom , you need to be clear about the objective you are pursued . In this we fight today is evident that this is a ripe maneuver to defeat and conquer a government to govern for all and to unify the country , which can not be further divided into two pieces .

You can not keep playing into Maduro's assassin government , and its insincere called to peace .

A totalitarian character, which has proved its impracticality , its failure, and other democratic character, based on the National Constitution, which states that Venezuela is and always will be democratic: In this confrontation two types of companies are on the board.

This should not be forgotten in no time. Behold precisely the cause of the crisis, and it may only be overcome while Maduro remains in power.

Venezuela needs a transitional government to call new elections and institutionalize the country , with the return to the Civil Republic and Democracy. This is to normalize the country .

Venezuela is experiencing a deep crisis that can not be resolved with warm cloths . This crisis is out: creating a new government, which, as stated above, should be transitional .

Venezuela can not continue living like this. A country without rule of law takes refuge in repression causing dozens of deaths, using torture, must have limits on their actions and their future must be change, but change in a democratic direction .

Maduro has taken refuge in repression. It will go down in history as one of the assassin governments, even dictatorships like Perez Jimenez.

The crisis rocking the country is systemic, ie, covering all areas of national life. There is no partial solution to the problems. Then we have the economic crisis, which has no outlet but a shift. So things are raised.

As for the opposition, which has closer ties to the country and make a choice that is attractive , and that is none other than democratic choice. But the opposition has to stand united and open to new perspectives for the country. A new way of living where all Venezuelans live together and know that we are all treated equally, without degrading insults, and without deepening existing wounds.

Political leader
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Source: http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/opinion/firmas/pompeyo-marquez/objetivo-claro.aspx
Translation Based on Google Translate

I've highlighted the three sections of the essay in bold.

The first one is this: The need for a transitional government. They've tried doing this via soft coup, which has already failed. The Maduro government already made headways, and people in opposition controlled areas are pissed off of the guarimbos. As a matter of fact the National Guard and Venezuelan Army has just liberated the City of San Christobal from Guraimbas and Guarimbos despite some resistance yesterday on 3/31/2014.

Even if there was a transitional government, if it happens you know what's going to happen it one is ever established!

The other way is via the electoral manner, via a recall referendum. But they've already tried that with Chavez with Capiles, and it failed! As soon as Capriles lost and he called for his supporters to "pour their rage!" the people have gotten a taste of what would happen if Capriles actually won the presidency.

People who are aligned via the PSUV and the normally apolitically persons who usually vote for either the PSUV or the opposition have no interest in the opposition what so ever, after all the mayhem they put up with.

Already we have three local public officials jailed for contempt of court! And those local officials will most likely be replaced by PSUV members.

The second: The Venezuelan Constitution and the laws clear state against torture and excessive force. Over 60 instances of violations of the Constitution are already been investigated by the Public Ministry. Many of the repression the mainstream media in the US showed and the opposition media routinely showed were considered necessary force because they were either blocking the highways, obstructing public rights of movement , violently attacking the public who dared dismantled the barricades. As a matter of fact instead of aggressively attacking the barricades (inadvertently causing a media show for the opposition in American media), they let the Guarimbos burn themselves out.

And how they do that? They just take defensive positions and smoke them out using tear gas. Once they eventually get tired out and scattered, they proceed to arrest them using motorcycles. It's a very efficient strategy.

The third: The Opposition has already been fractured, and just today it has even got worse. Ex-assembly woman Machado, already got slapped in the face by the Organization of American states for trying to talk about the country (A few days ago the OAS made a statement clearly supporting the country.), has now has her lost of seat in the Assembly confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice, yesterday. Lopez is already in a military prison (for his own protection, from his own political party) for arson, property damage, criminal association, and public incitement to crime. Machado is already facing the same fate, but add high treason to the mix of charges. Capriles is lucky he's not in prison yet as he's still not doing his job as a Governor of Miranda state and still being a sore loser!

It's clear that the Government and Venezuelan public want peace for the opposition who actually wants dialogue, but several times, the political opposition (not the economic, social, intellectual opposition) refused. So the strategy is clear: Reconcile with the moderates, repress the criminal and extreme opposition. It's actually a good strategy than going full Stalin.

So, yeah, Maduro's is not running an "assassin government", the Venezuelan opposition on the other hand is doing most of the assassination. With now 39 people dead.


Monday, March 31, 2014

Fun with the Venezuelan Guarimba Insurrection by Chavistas

Despite the seriousness of the the February 12 Guarimba Insurrection, chavistas and their politically aware supporters have not lost their sense of humor as the events occurred. Facebook and Twitter has been used by Chavistas as much as the people who opposed the PSUV government with the hash tags #SOSVenezuela. Here's a few of the many images I found online


Organization MissPanama
Speech Bubble: I'm not a [national assembly]deputy or a president. I'm the Queen of Guarimas, Queen of Terrorism, and Queen of Capitalism

Top Caption: 9 out of 10 people do not support the [guarimba] protests
Yellow Speech bubble: Who ever get's tired... Epa! Where the people went?
Bottom Caption: The WARimba Failure

"Venezuela is with you Bolivarian National Guard"

Guarimbas of Chucky



Divine Justice puts them behind bars one by one.
Decent Venezuelans DO NOT want political thugs.






Thursday, March 6, 2014

#PrayforVenezuela to Remain a Sovereign Nation

Most of the corporate-owned mainstream coverage of the Venezuelan Opposition Civil Insurrection involves the same refrain: "chaos, civil war, 54 percent inflation, crime, exit Maduro, government responsibility, peaceful students, Lopez, Harvard Business graduate, toilet paper..." It's the same refrain and chorus that most media outlets, even the Al-Jazeera Media Network's Al-Jazeera America and Al-Jazeera English repeating. Here's someone who actually lived in Venezuela for three decades in a rural village that has benefited from the ruling party's government.

Please note that this is an opinion piece.

When I built my home 17 years ago in a rural area outside Sanare in the western state of Lara, my neighbors were barely eking out a subsistence, digging for potatoes and herding goats and sheep. The only school in town was elementary level, and teachers showed up only two days per week on average. There were no modern modes of transport. If you got sick, you had to walk eight miles to town and get in line at 3 a.m. to be seen by a doctor the next day at the nearest hospital.
Today, that same community has an elementary and secondary school, and a free university that functions on the weekends. Every evening, the university offers adult classes. My neighbors are now doctors, lawyers and teachers. Their younger siblings face few barriers to pursuing their dreams. There are 18 new homes — double the amount before, with approximately the same population — built by the local community council in my enclave. Many of my neighbors have replaced horse sheds with driveways for their vehicles. There is also a free medical clinic, staffed by Cuban doctors and Venezuelan medical students from my community, half a mile down the road.
 “For every year of the revolution, I think that everyone has gained a kilo,” said a surprised American visitor, commenting on my neighbor’s plumper physique.
These same stories could be told a thousand times over. If only journalists would actually come to Venezuela and leave their five-star hotels, maybe they would figure out why the country has repeatedly re-elected Chavismo in more than a dozen elections for the last 14 years, in what former U.S. President and democracy observer Jimmy Carter calls “the best electoral system in the world.”
Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/venezuela-protestsmaduromediapropaganda.html
Most of the news coverage of Venezuela before the elections and the civil insurrection never focused on the positive changes Chavez and Maduro made to the country 15 years since the revolution. Great advancements made in food, medical services, education, economics. The same village that has been destitute and poor, are now rising up to the working-class standards. Living standards for working-class has basically shot through the roof, allowing them more disposable income to contribute to the economy. Even in the National Conference for Peace, held by Maduro, the president of the Polar Group of Companies stated that he actually benefited from the revolution as he gained more customers who can now buy his goods and participate in the economy.
The country, despite rising inflation, insecurity, and shortages of basic goods (all connected to the economic war that has been ongoing since 2004 and state governors aligned with the opposition who has refused to fold their police forces into the Venezuelan National Police Corps) is still actually in the initial stages of socialist democracy. When we mean a socialist democracy, we mean a active economic and political democracy than the passive democracy of most Western States. It is essential that the United States, deal with it's own problems than to interfere with another countries sovereign affairs. Besides the United States has much problems dealing with economic and social inequality in it's own borders.