Ukraine has the front seat in the news yet, closer to home
in Venezuela, a massacre in the making is largely ignored by the national
media.
Venezuela is not my country of origin; I come from
the other one, the one which is basically causing all the trouble over there.
Including flying shock troops by the planeload to “show” the Venezuelan army
and thug police how they must deal with the dissidents. No matter these are
unarmed students and mothers whose only political sin is to ask for their basic
freedoms and question the terrible state in which their country and society are,
as well as give voice to their utter hopelessness for a better future.
The current government cannot give coherent answers
to these questions for the simple reason they don’t have any to give; the same
government which created the chaos cannot possibly give hope of a better future
when they can’t even manage the present. Faced with this, students and
protesters refuse to back down, despite the fact these protests have already
caused the death of some 20 young people at the hand of the cowardly masked
thugs supported by the government. The arrival of Cuban troops promises to make
this a much worse situation.
Venezuela has been traditionally a peaceful
country, with warm and friendly people who tremendously enjoy(ed) a lifestyle which
includes(ded) great music, food, laughter and just having a good time, after a
hard day’s work. That was before this government came in. In the 80’s and early
90’s, during my very frequent visits there, several of my hosts became dear
friends who proudly showed me their country and who were very willing to share
its beauty with a working visitor like me. The last remembered time when people
took to the streets goes back to the 50’s, when a military dictator also
overplayed his hand and then, like today, it was the students who showed the
way and who eventually raised the people’s conscience and got rid of him.
What I see on the reports and what I hear from friends
fills me with dread for these folks, for I know the Castro government cannot
afford to lose the Venezuelan oil and gold and will do whatever they think
necessary to quell the people’s shouts, even if it means killing a few hundred…
or thousand… after all, they have a lot of experience doing this in Cuba and in
other countries which have fallen prey to their ways and lies; they have no
scruples whatsoever about doing this. The Cuban thugs know that if this country’s
financial wherewithal is lost to them, it could well mean the end to their more
than half a century old dictatorship.
When a friend called me to tell me about the first
planeloads of Cuban troops landing, this news did not surprise me at all. After
all, there have been Cuban troops in Venezuela for quite some time. However,
this is the first time the arrival is in mass and openly done. Desperation must
be setting in. And this is not good.
As I write this, there are some news that a full
garrison has turned against the government and sided with the dissidents. If this
is confirmed, it may well be the beginning of the awakening of the professional
armed forces in Venezuela or… what is left of them by now; they are the
only hope the dissidents will have to survive and triumph before the Cuban troops
they will have to face. This conflict may turn into a full-fledged civil war. Unfortunately, this may be the only way of ridding the country of this cancer
that is inexorably destroying it.
I pray for my Venezuelan friends, their families
and for a country that received me as a visitor and which gave many of my
countrymen refuge from the very regime which now wants to make their country an
extension of the Havana created systemic rape. International opinion can’t hide
their inaction behind the false veneer of a so-called “democracy” which is
anything but. They only have to look at the Cuban government and at the fact
that just in the month of February this year, over 1,000 people were put in jail for
the horrible political sin of voicing discontent or for questioning the obvious
inefficiency of their mandates and rules; this group of controlling thugs is hell bent on
holding on to power.
Godspeed my friends… this may be the only chance
you will have to get rid of this regime. No dialogue will work and the voting
process has been clearly shown to be contaminated and controlled as well.
“!El que se cansa primero, pierde!”
“He who tires first, will lose!”
Be
Well … Be Back!!!
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