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I was shocked when I read the tweet from a
Canadian news company, CBC https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/859241139819483136
blaming the opposition for trying to stage a coup in Venezuela, my country.
Considering, as we all know, the statement from the Canadian
Government regarding Venezuela, this article left me a bit perplexed:
http://www.international.gc.ca/oas-oea/2017-04-Resolution_Venezuela.aspx?lang=eng
Venezuela is a rich country, although paradoxically dying of
hunger, lack of medicines, and social disregard by the government.
Ever since Hugo Chavez started governing my country, companies
were expropiated, private properties taken away from their rightful owners so
“the people” could use them. You can turn to the news and check what the
situation of those properties, then seized by the government is now:
Non-productive and abandoned because “the people” lacked the expertise to take
care of anything they were given, and in turn the government could not care
less, already having met its goal: it had already sent the message that it
cared for the less fortunate in Venezuela, but it was all a façade: it kept
making them poorer by the day. All Chavez pretended was to give the idea of taking
care of the less fortunate when all he wanted was power and riches.
Where Chavez did well was at making friends: He made sure all
his revolutionary neighbors had substantial help from him, giving oil at
ridiculous terms, mostly in exchange of loyalty. He used Venezuela as his
personal wallet. This fortuneless man ended up amassing one of the biggest
fortunes of Latin America. During his time in office, Venezuela started to be
known for drug traficking.
When Maduro arrived in power, his only merit was having been
appointed by Chavez. It was apparent that this clueless man with no studies had
an impossible task to accomplish: inflation ratse were soaring, the militias
were everywhere cand ontrolling everything. Day in and day out, much like his
predecessor, he claimed that somebody, somewhere was staging a coup d’état
against him, he accussed Spain, the USA, Colombia, any country could be guilty,
just seach on youtube: “Maduro Acusa”:
I could keep on adding links, maybe one per month ever since he
first sat in office, 4 years ago.
As everyone knows, drug trafficking has become a major issue in
Venezuela: two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady are awaiting sentence for drug
trafficking into the United States. Tareck al Aisami, Vicepresident of
Venezuela, is suspected to be a drug lord; he is actually facing many sanctions
from USA’s Government.
Another one of the big names in Venezuela is Diosdado Cabello,
he is a military man and a polititian. He was the President of the National
Assembly until Dec 2015 there are many reports on him for being a member of the
drug cartel “El Cartel de los Soles”
On January 17th 2017, Mr Cabello said that “No more
elections will be held, what we will have is even more revolution”
The government shows pictures of young masked students throwing
pebbles at national guards, they must have their face covered or else they go
detained just by being in the street. And if they throw pebbles or return the
gas bombs they are thrown at is only because they have no means of defending
themselves under the constant agression of the government and militia forces.
The government declares my country as a democracy. Yet why are
they even holding political prisoners and why do they forbid visits to them
from both their families and their legal representatives? There are documents
ordering the release of many prisoners and yet they are still incarcerated.
There is permission granted to Lilian Tintori to visit opposition leader
Leopoldo Lopez and yet she has not been able to see him for the las 32 days.
All Venezuela wants is Humanitarian help: food, medicines,
release and political rehabilitation of political prisioners, Peace and
Freedom. If violence escalates, we Venezuelans, hold the government
responsible.
The government calls it a revolution, talks about war. But we
say, war is when both sides are armed.
What I clearly see in Venezuela is GENOCIDE.
* I asked permission to a journalist, Pableysa Ostos, to post a
picture taken by her in Puerto Ordaz.
https://twitter.com/PableOstos/status/859811251354046464
Respectfully submitted,
Carmen F.
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