Maduro, the coup plotter

By: Pedro Corzo - 14/08/2024

Guest columnist.
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They say that the Roman senator Cato the Elder ended all his speeches with the expression “Delenda Cartago est”, demanding the destruction of the city state of Carthage, a staunch enemy of the Eternal City. His demand was heard and Carthage was razed to the ground.

Perhaps, then, it would be prudent to repeat ad nauseam to those who are committed to democracy and the values ​​of the West, that they should investigate very carefully those who they favor with their votes, because there is no shortage of individuals who, when they take power, do not let go and resort to extreme violence to perpetuate itself, even appointing his successors, as has happened in Cuba and Venezuela and Daniel Ortega intends to do in Nicaragua.

Totalitarian Cuba and the Venezuelan dictatorship are twins in their constant and widespread practice of violating human rights and preventing their citizens from fully realizing themselves. Cuba's repressive practices have been transferred to the land of the Liberator. The criminal experience of Castro's hitmen has been deployed in that country, extremely favoring its rulers, a reality that embarrasses me as a Cuban who loves freedom.

The sufferings of today's Venezuela are consistent with the character and projects of Hugo Chávez, political progenitor of the autocrat Nicolas Maduro. This guy is acting in the most corrupt tradition of Chávez, consisting of always resorting to military force to impose his will.

Chávez came to government with the votes of his fellow citizens, but before that he led a bloody coup attempt that it is worth remembering to his followers and allies who try to describe Chavismo and its derivatives as a pristine political proposal conceived without the sin of violence. . Both the military coup leader and the despotic union leader have been the gravediggers of Venezuelan democracy and as such must always be recorded.

Chávez liked extreme terror, hence his early association with Fidel Castro, at the same time that he assumed as one of his first slogans, conveniently forgotten by his supporters, "Homeland, Socialism or Death", dishonoring the Homeland, socializing misery and killing and corrupting, a function in which his heir has surpassed him.

Choosing is a great responsibility. Errors can be paid for by the voter and his descendants for decades. In Cuba, the Castros conquered power by force, but they had broad popular support; in Venezuela, it was through elections, capitalized by a military man who led a bloody military coup.

It is true that Nicolas Maduro has never had popular favor. He inherited the power. The 2013 elections were a fraud, repeated in 2018 with the numerous maneuvers of the spurious National Electoral Council that has always been at the service of the ruling party. In these last elections, the rejection has been so gigantic and the organization of the opposition so efficient, that it has not been possible for them to manipulate the results.

Nicolas Maduro and his main associates Diosdado Cabello and General Vladimir Padrino López, executioners of democracy, insist on ignoring the victory of the opposition, increasing repression to new levels, while imprisoning and killing those who demand their rights.

However, they have not found fear. The people, the elected president Edmundo González Urrutia and the national leader, María Corina Machado, continue to claim victory, they do not allow themselves to be intimidated, although they know that threats can be materialized at any time.

The electoral victory of Venezuelans has had repercussions throughout the world and once again it could be seen in the recent vote in the Organization of American States (OAS) that those who are genuinely committed to defending the rights of others, and who support the tyrants

The president of Mexico, Manuel López Obrador, consistent with his country's historical policy of "non-interference", which for the oppressed results in complicity with tyrants, ordered his representative not to participate in the meeting, which together with the The abstention of 11 other countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Bolivia, whose governments have historically been allies of Castro-Chavism, made it impossible to obtain the necessary votes to demand that Maduro publish the results of the elections held on December 28. July.

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