Being part of the revolution is to recognise mistakes and correct them, being a revolutionary is to refuse corruption and its perptrators no matter who they could be!

VHeadline commentarist Hahnemann Coll writes: I must say that I am not surprised with the information about VHeadline being "blacked", the reason is simple: the Bolivarian Revolution is hurt more from the inside than from outside.

While there are people that really care about the wellbeing of ALL Venezuelans and the success of the whole revolution, there are not only the corrupts that remind us the plague that affects Latin America from time immemorial, we find, also, the total internal intolerance toward the critics that should be the best weapon the revolution could find to improve and solve any problem that could arise.

On the contrary, the critics within the revolution's ranks, are treated as the scum of the earth, as enemies of the revolution, as a pariah by their own mates.

Being part of the revolution is to recognise mistakes and correct them, being a revolutionary is to refuse corruption and its perptrators no matter who they could be. To be a revolutionary means to point out whatever is wrong as we do when something is right, to put Venezuela's interests before one owns and understand that the well-being of all and everyone of those living in Venezuela will benefit oneself.

Sadly, we see everyday those that call themselves revolutionaries procrastinating the revolution itself and wasting enormous amounts of time and energy defending small parcels of power while the counterrevolution is doing its part with all the tools available.

I see the revolution falling apart in spite of the disinterested efforts of those who really care, those who day after day give their best for Venezuela and the revolution.

• It is not only the corruption. To appeal to the observer the revolution has to demonstrate that is better than other options.

Instead, what we get is a bunch of guys declaring here and there, discrediting all of those that do
not thinks as they do, falling into the CIA's game instead of promoting a real battle of ideas and proposals. We have a left wing that remains in the 60s and hasn't understood that changes have to be done and quick for the survival of the whole process.

The problem is not Globovisión or what it says, the problem is what we say and what we do or, even more important, what we don't say and what we don't do.

The fourth Republic fell down because of the total lack of respect the political elite shown toward the Venezuelan people, not because the current leaders demonstrated being better than the formers. It is a mistake to assume that the bad habits from the fourth Republic disappeared with the arrival of Hugo Chavez, on the contrary, the fight has to be frontal and merciless by all democratic means against corruption and inefficiency, there are no valid excuses.

Problem is, do we really have the kind of leaders that would act that way?

• I feel that they are less and less every day, but they deserve our cooperation.

Most probably the only thing we are going to get is our personal satisfaction for doing the right thing ... for some of us that's the most important.

Hahnemann Coll
hahnemanncoll@gmail.com