Venezuela: where the missing enjoy good health

By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 10/04/2024

The Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab continues to surprise the world with his findings. After finding Maria Corina Machado guilty of sedition and treason he now announces that he has managed to arrest the former vice president and Oil Czar of the regime Tarek El Aissami.

The Aissami resigned a little more than a year ago to disappear from the face of the earth. He now suddenly appears handcuffed and surrounded by security agents. He was clearly not in any hiding place because he is shaved, with clean hair and a serene face.

And even though redemption is possible even in the most crooked beings, we do not think that the Attorney General or the Venezuelan regime have found their epiphany and, therefore, are taking measures to put a stop to the rampant corruption that they have practiced with pleasure for almost three years. decades. Hence, it is necessary to scrutinize the situation in suffering Venezuela to form a criterion of what is really happening.

To begin with, it is clear that the sanctions initiated by the Obama administration and deepened by the Trump Administration have managed to reduce the size of the Bolivarian loot by 70%. Thus the situation of the regime has gone from compromised to precarious. Because the organization of the Venezuelan state today resembles that of any criminal gang in the world. Members of the administrative structure are allowed to commit crimes to cover their salaries and the functioning of the state thanks to an economic policy that destroyed the creation of wealth in the country. Since there is not much to manage, the lion's share is taken within the scheme of participation in illicit acts by those in charge of the repressive apparatus. But if economic activity shrinks every day, it is more difficult to finance this fundamental element to sustain the regime. When the repressive mechanism loses strength, the regime weakens and internal disputes begin. These only have two outcomes. The most likely is internal power struggles where the least skilled or most distracted are defenestrated and their possessions taken. This calms things down for a while. The second is a popular implosion that ends up sending half the world to the guillotine as happened in France in 1789.

But for the regime it is also essential to buy time and create situations that distract the world from the electoral farce it is mounting and its results. The arrest and trial of El Aissami create enough of a circus to occupy the entire international press with the matter and to stop investigating the reasons that prevent Dr. Corina Yoris from being able to register her candidacy.

And last, but not least, is the international geopolitical context. Throughout the duration of the regime that oppresses Venezuela, two extracontinental actors have gained political power. These are Russia and Iran. El Aissami is a very valuable token for Iran because he has facilitated its operations in Latin America. Hence, Iran has probably intervened to free El Aissami, who was clearly in Venezuela and most likely detained.

Facing the world, the regime can say that it is punishing its corrupt people and try to wash its face in multilateral organizations and make people forget the annoying trial that the leaders of the regime face in the International Criminal Court.

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