Gerver Torres, a Venezuelan writer, resigned from El Universal, a Caracas newspaper when the editors refused to publish this article:
(Venezuelan President) Maduro speaks
daily with shock and anguish of conspiracies that he discovers, that he
dismantles and that apparently reproduce themselves everywhere, all the time.
Why does Maduro feel so tortured by a possible coup? The truth is that when one
recognizes the circumstances surrounding him, one comes to the conclusion that
Maduro is right and has many reasons to be distressed, to fear a coup, and even
more than one. Let us review some of the circumstances.
Maduro in military parade (photo from ABC article here
His international allies have
abandoned him and are all in serious trouble: Cubans rushing to reestablish
relations with the United States; Argentine president Cristina Kirchner at the
end of her term with an economy in a tailspin and facing serious accusations of
all kinds. Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff, also with a stagnant economy and
overwhelmed by the Petrobras corruption scandal, the biggest in the history of
Brazil. Vladimir Putin, submerged in the Ukraine crisis, under sanctions by the
European Union and in severe difficulties because of the fall in oil prices.
Iran, negotiating a nuclear accord with the United States and trying to
redefine its relations with that country.
Men very close to the regime are
fleeing the country and starting to openly attack the regime: Leamsy Salazar
defected to the United States with his wife to tell the story of the Cartel of
the Suns (cocaine traffickers within the Venezuela military); Minister of
Foreign Affairs Rafael Ramirez will sneak away, distancing himself from the
regime. At any moment a bomb explodes there; Giordani reappears emboldened to
say that the country has become the laughingstock of Latin America, just months
after he was kicked out of the government.
The country’s employment is in the
toilet, with Venezuelans experiencing totally unexpected events, lines,
shortages, patients dying in hospitals for lack of supplies, runaway inflation,
and other tragedies such as unchecked and unpunished crime.
Maduro can no longer count on
abundant oil revenues and access to debt which could postpone the solution to
many problems.
Maduro lives in a country
institutionally ruined, turned into a jungle, without a Judiciary, devoured by
corruption. Meanwhile all this was generated by the same regime that presides today
and served to sustain it over a long period of time, this same lack of a
framework of institutions that now turn against it. The regime no longer has
anything to latch onto but repression.
Maduro knows that his popularity has
fallen very low, not even the Chavez loyalists want him any more.
Maduro knows, and this is not small
thing, that his eternal commander — Chavez — found justification for the 1992
coup in problems much smaller than the country has today.
How is Maduro not going to be
anguished by the possibility of a coup?
Source:
Note: El Universal was taken over by a foreign company connected to Spanish interests, which appears to be financed by chavistas laudering money via Banesco. Banesco is a Venezuelan bank which purchased controling shares in Spanish banks (one of which violates Spanish banking regulations). Ever since the new ownership arrived El Universal has exercised a high degree of self censorship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/americas/sale-of-paper-in-venezuela-raises-fears-on-freedom.html?_r=0
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31545963
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31545963
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