Envy and war

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 01/12/2023

Envy is described as "a feeling or mental state in which there is pain or misfortune for not possessing what another has, whether in goods, superior qualities or other kinds of tangible and intangible things."

For its part, the Royal Academy of Language (RAE) defines it as "sadness or regret for the good of others, or as a desire for what one does not possess."

In light of the above, can we envy the government of Venezuela, as stated by the dictator of that country, Nicolás Maduro, who also describes us as evil, xenophobic, oligarchs, racists and exploiters, seeking to take political advantage of incidents that occurred in a party? soccer?

Can we envy a perverted regime that turned one of the richest countries in the world into a destroyed territory, with 94% poor and 76.6% in a situation of misery, according to data from the National Survey of Living Conditions of the Andrés Bello Catholic University? .

We cannot envy the person responsible for the heartbreaking exodus of 8 million human beings, according to the UN, a figure that continues to increase because hundreds more continue to migrate, even risking their lives when crossing the dangerous jungle of the Darién Gap, a journey that 150,327 have made. llaneros, according to a report from Panamanian authorities.

Does a ruler accused in two reports by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of 7,000 murders, who must answer to the prosecutors of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and syndicated, provoke envy, jealousy, admiration, Likewise, by the OAS, the European Union and all humanitarian organizations for affecting the life and freedom of thousands of human beings?

Will Maduro think that it is a sign of political pride to have generated an accumulated hyperinflation between 2013-2018 of 5 million 400 thousand percent or to confiscate 1,341 private companies that are now in ruin and their workers on the streets?

Or, perhaps, does the ruler ignore that by handing over prison management to the criminals themselves, the sinister Aragua Train gang emerged, a powerful multinational crime group that has been committing atrocious murders in Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Brazil?

The Chavista system, on the other hand, is fascist in nature because it centralizes in the president all public powers that should be autonomous institutions. This is not the case in Venezuela, because the National Electoral Council, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Comptroller's Office, the Public Ministry, the Ombudsman's Office, and the Bolivarian Armed Forces and Police act as satellites of the regime to repress the opposition and illegally remain in power.

A country overwhelmed by an unpaid foreign debt of 200 billion dollars, it is also facing legal proceedings for not compensating confiscated national and foreign companies, a debt estimated at US$ 43,384, which includes almost US$ 10,000 to the American ConocoPhillips and US$ 1,500 to Spanish companies.

Or, finally, can we envy those who live with the tyrants of Cuba and Nicaragua; that offers its land to the genocidal Putin for the training of military forces that attack the Ukrainian people, bombing schools, hospitals and homes; that associates with the fundamentalist regime of Iran in exchange for weapons and that harbors the terrorist organization Hezbollah and dissidents of the Colombian guerrilla?

It is also an immoral, absolutely corrupt regime, whose civil and military leaders have looted the public coffers, stealing at least 300 billion dollars.

Maduro is in his final phase, in transit to the political graveyard, because all polls indicate that in the 2024 presidential elections the social democratic leader María Corina Machado will defeat him by a difference of 4 to 1.

Faced with this perspective, their response will be more repression, more imprisonments and murders of opponents, more people moving abroad.

In this toxic context, Maduro has reactivated the territorial and maritime conflict with Guyana that disputes 160 thousand square kilometers of Essequibo, an area rich in oil and minerals.

To do so, it has called a referendum for next December 3 with two key questions: whether voters accept the jurisdiction of the UN International Court of Justice, to whose jurisdiction the Chavista regime submitted, and whether they approve the creation of the state of Guyana. -Essequibo as part of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The maneuver is evident: the purpose of the consultation is to seek the support of the population, as the Argentine dictatorship did

after invading the Falkland Islands.

Following the same script, we have no doubt that, filled with false "patriotism", the leadership of the regime will mobilize its military forces towards Guyana.

We warn, therefore, that there is a risk of war in the region, which must deserve preferential attention from the press and our foreign ministries.

We point this out because that could be the only way for Maduro to avoid next year's presidential elections. That prevents, in short, a catastrophic electoral defeat.

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