This is the kind of Chavista activist Maduro can count on.
If you don't read Spanish, I read it for you.
"Historian. Proud of living in the BOLIVARIAN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA". Revolutionary. National-socialist. Venezuelan and Chavista in mind and body".
On the back you can see Kalashnikovs and Sukhois, the kind of toys Chávez bought for over 9 billion dollars in the last few years.
Most Chavista voters are not like him but definitely there is a considerable lot and they are very dangerous.
Such wackos are a minority to be sure, but they are highly motivated and can inflict great damage. An example is the presence of the so-called colectivos, pro-regime paramilitary, on the campi of the different venezuelan public autonomous universities. For years they exercise selective violence (insults, threats, physical aggression, general vandalism including torching offices and vehicles, launching tear gas grenades in closed areas during ceremonies, wielding guns and shooting in the air as well as intimidating people with them ... the list goes. State sponsored violence as one of the facets of the regime´s aggression against the autonomous universities. On my Maracay campus the student centre was torched some 3 year agos and the arsonists were injured as buckets of paint and thinner exploded. The student centre was not chavista, a chavista student died and another severely injured during their exercise in mayhem. The names of the guilty are known but since they are Pro-regime, no legal proceedings have taken place. So wackos need not be like the bloke with the webpage, but an average person that gives in the the brain washing. It will take years to heal this country from the doctrine of hate dictated and sanctioned by Chavez, becoming defacto government policy.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Thanks for describing your experience, Nebelwald. I know of similar cases all around Venezuela. Unfortunately, foreign journalists don't get this. They would need to work in Venezuela and particularly spend much more time away from Caracas.
DeleteI wonder if he's 'historiador' in the sense an Italian may claim to be 'dottore' if he finishes high school. Military hardware has a tendency to make men the world over, especially young men, go all gooey and adolescent macho. Some never grow out of it.
ReplyDeleteRory,
DeleteI don't know but I think he sort of likes history and that might be the reason. He probably got excited after hearing the usual Bolivarian myths, the stories about Zamora and the Caracazo.
He is obsessed with foreign affairs but his view is quite peculiar.
"COMUNISMO HAY HOY EN DIA EN COREA DEL NORTE Y SUR, CUBA, CANADA, EMIRATOS ARABES Y SON COMUNISMOS SUAVES NO ORTODOXOS COMO EL NAZI Y EL URSS"
"ALLUP, HENRY FALCON, CAPRILES, JULIO BORGES, MARIA CORINA, PADRON, AQUI HAY COMUNISMO, X LO VISTO ELLOS NO SABEN DE HISTORIA SON IGNORANTES."
Sad, the level of education in Venezuela.