opinion

Things look bad, very bad I would say, at this early time of the morning today (5 a.m. on September 25). At times I wonder why the USA has to wait until a country is completely under the boot of a dictator, citizens being killed or living in extreme poverty to COME AND SAVE THEM? Big deal! If they had helped out earlier many more lives could have been saved.

This morning, camp Los Semerucos in the Paraguana Peninsula (so easily accessed by sea and air) is being savagely attacked by the --- National Guard? (I wonder how many are Venezuelans and how many Cubans or guerrillas in disguise) --- with no distinction, house by house, kids being suffocated by tear and/or pepper gas, houses broken into, people being detained with no info on where they are being taken to, no Public Defender or Representatives for the citizens are present, it is a real "war commando" ordered by Chávez.

This ex- legitimate president is completely crazy. You probably heard of his unsustainable attacks against the church last Sunday; now sit down for the following: just yesterday, in a women's concentration (what the heck was he doing there? --- it should have been presided by one of the female Ministers, if I remember well we have or had a Ministerio de la Mujer y la Familia or something like that, but as he first reduced the amount of Ministries and then started renaming everything and creating tens of new institutions and ministries, actually I have lost track) at our largest theater (which is deteriorating rapidly due to these political events instead of its cultural use) I heard him clearly state that for next year's elections in the USA we might have a "Chavista" (he no longer says Bolivariano or MVRista) president in that country. Has he gone bananas or what? We have a freaking autocrat, delirious, and non-nationalist guy (as he keeps bringing in Cubans and other supporters not only to serve as militia but to take over jobs that should be for Venezuelans, plus a large amount of weapons!!!) destroying our economy, our country in general, doing nothing to preserve the lives of poor or rich, as most thieves and assassins are left free with legal tricks, because these are precisely the hordes that serve his purposes and get paid for that.

Megalomaniac, mythomaniac, paranoid, bipolar, you name the mental illness and it surely fits his psyche. The guy is mad in all senses. This is no longer a democracy, not with the armed forces attacking citizens instead of detaining those that attack us and/or invade private property ("that" the government approves, but not that the petroleum industry workers stay in the hard earned houses, must they thus "invade" their own homes?); instead of controlling our borders from illegal aliens ESPECIALLY THE FARC and ELN. And the USA knows this. Declaring Chávez a proven dictator and terrorist (as he permits the entrance and protects the Colombian guerrilla) and thus war on him NOW would save thousands of lives and be a very quick operation, 90 percent of unarmed citizens would approve, welcome and support a taking over of military headquarters and detaining or shooting down any armed groups (which are largely disseminated but quite small).

I am sure it would take us less than three months, once peace is forcibly restored by the USA, to organize and carry out new DEMOCRATIC elections, and again have a SANE president that can maintain good political, diplomatic and commercial relationships with the USA and other democratic countries. If the guerrilla camps' locations are already surely identified by satellite, these could be bombed to smithereens, and the small groups of fanatics (this is not a country of religious anti-USA fanaticism as Iraq, on the contrary) could easily be detained in prisons or camps to be later judged by the real working class Venezuelans, once order and legitimate government is restored. We would then have a large moral debt with the USA that we would gladly pay.

Later, when the country is at its poorest level, the petroleum industry completely destroyed, thousands killed? Thanks, but no thanks!


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Hartmann, Bush's bounced blank check
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