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.
