As EFE reported yesterday, Hugo Chávez declared again to his followers that they had to win the next regional and municipal elections to guarantee the peace of the country. He said "we have to do it to guarantee the peace because we are the peace and they (the opposition) is the war, the path to war, to terrorism, to the destruction of Venezuela". He said if the opposition were to win the elections 2009 would be a year of war.
Mr Chávez and his followers became known in Venezuela because of two bloody coups against a democratically elected president, a president who was going to step back two years later anyway (back then we did not have reelections and a presidency was for 5 years). Lieutenant-colonel Chávez and his followers accuse the opposition of being coup mongers because there was a group in 2002 of extreme right who carried out a coup, a coup like Hugo Chávez himself.
The vast majority of the opposition does not want violence. Why can't Chávez accept there are such things as pluralism? That the basis for it are respect and tolerance?
What kind of democrat is this Chávez?
We do have a war in Venezuela already: as I wrote in my Spanish blog, the murder rate keeps increasing and the government keeps repeating it has been reducing it (it has tripled since Chávez came to power). The government refuses to debate openly with the opposition about ways to tackle the problem. Chávez is just interested in staying in power, he cannot focus on anything else.
Hi Kepler,
ReplyDeleteI read your Spanish blog too,
This country is in a "silent" war. We have more homicide's then a country as Irak and Afghanistan together.
It is a scandal that this government is doing nothing against the criminality. They are so ignorant and the only thing what is important for them is money and power.
The figure's on your Spanish blog about crime in carabobo is shocking.
Alpha
Hi, Alpha. Notitarde publishes the figures every week and news on crime with lots of details, sad thing. I just read them now for the purpose of documenting the phenomenon my country is going through. Now, one of the first 3 days of every month, they publish the amount of murders per municipality in Carabobo state. One can find those articles in their archives. For the casual reader who might doubt about those figures: one just needs to check the news for one week with the details, mostly with the names of the people. The CICPC, the national police investigation group, makes it difficult to get the numbers nationwide, but they do deliver the statistics per state (one only has to do the maths) and they correspond to this.
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