Antonio Sánchez García Especial para noticias24.com
(Translated G. Cisneros)
Hugo Chavez made a mistake: he thought that after the prognosticated loss of his movement in the regional elections next November, the Venezuelan opposition would come after him. And that an opposition victory in Miranda, Caracas or Carabobo, not only would depose those important states and cities of leaders he had hand picked by virtue of his presidential majesty, passing them over to the opposition alliance, but that this would signal, moreover, the start of a hostile attack against his person.
There was no shortage of persons ready to ratify this scenario, believing that the Venezuelan crisis moves along the comfortable and cushioned tracks of an electoral confrontation. We have repeatedly heard political leaders, columnists, and editors from the left wing of the democratic opposition speak of 2012 as the watershed year for removing Chavez via the presidential elections without, however, noticing that the rhythm and velocity of the crisis would blow all of these expectations to the four winds.
Confronting the upcoming electoral battle outside the context of the grave crisis of governability that agitates the country and fractures the foundations of the regime implies not only blindness, but irresponsibility and crass ignorance.
All the indicators point to what is already happening. Hugo Chavez is the victim of an incurable decease, his personality disorders have no cure. They pull him inevitably toward the abyss and his most profound impulses are self-destructive. He is verbally incontinent, violent and unreflective by nature. He lacks the most elemental mechanisms for self control and, left to his own devises, he is his own worst enemy - particularly in those moments when, being a sociopath narcissist, all of his dreams and hopes collide with the reality that his aspirations for glory and majesty are radically frustrated, such as they as is now the case.
He is approaching his end.
He is approaching his end.
Beset by his own formidable errors and the absolute incompetence of his support team, he is engulfed by an economic, social, poetical and judicial crisis without precedence. And he is encircled internationally by the most serious accusations made against any president in the history of Latin America, with the exception of Augusto Pinochet. The international justice system will pursue him like it did the Chilean dictator or the criminals of the Balkan wars. His error: believing sincerely that the scandalous impunity which he has enjoyed in a politically and morally dismembered nation, humiliated and harassed by his cruelty, could be extended to the entire world, converting it into a battleground for his Napoleonic ambitions.
Such has been the submissiveness of the Latinamerican Left, and such the gangster like temperament of Peronists, Marxists, Lulaists, Frontists and Castroists, of all types and conditions, extending their hands and enriching or financing themselves at the side of the gigantic, criminal, and monstrous irresponsibility of this lieutenant colonel, who in the end came to believe seriously in his supernatural power and to feel beyond reproach like some demi god. Pinochet, Videla and Fujimori thought the same, just like their predecessors, Hitler and Mussolini. They have paid a steep price.
None of the accusations which he may now face before the International Criminal Court are news to the Venezuelan opposition. All of his ties with the FARC, with drug traffickers, with arms dealers, with the subversive and insurgent movements of Latin America, with the Argentine political mafias or the “piqueteros,” “cocaleros” or indigenists have been reported by our news media.
Neither Rafael Correa, nor Evo Morales, nor Daniel Ortega, and possibly not even Lula or Kirtchner, nor Tabare Vasquez or Cristina Fernandez have clean hands with respect to the corrupting money placed in possession of their campaign managers via the checkbook of this lieutenant colonel. There is abundant police evidence in relation to the briefcases that ended up in the hands of Ollanta Humala, Evo Morales or Ms. Fernandez. All of this is being revealed in Florida precisely at this moment.
Shortly, all of Chavez’s financial relationships with the remaining presidents of the, so-called, democratic left will come to light. And in that light will be displayed, for all to see, the devious dealings with the narcotics trade, the corrupt enrichment of his collaborators, the looting of our nation’s funds. His regime rots before our very eyes. His power unravels at a fantastic rate. Will he last long enough to live to see his historic defeat in liberty? This is a question that many Venezuelans have begun to ask themselves.
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