I am only interested in Venezuela'sdemocracy and the truth.
People ask me why the hell I care about Venezuela -- they ask why I have anything to do with Venezuela after how I have been treated by a string of bastards in the current administration.
The answer is quite simple: I believe in Democracy and the right of the people to choose their govenrment. I love Venezuela even though the land of my birth is Ireland. I have lived in many countries but I am faithful to Venezuela -- but this does not mean that I accept any crap posing as democracy and this is perhaps the crux of the problem.
What I have recently seen is a series of corrupt and power-hungry individuals who will not tolerate anyone questioning the crap they are up to ... in other words what difference is there between this and dictatorship ... they will not tolerate any dialogue with people who have constructive proposals to offer ... they brand people like us at VHeadline as 'Escualidos' although we are more patriotic than they to the Venezuelan people.
So okay, if they want to brand us as 'Escualidos' we have to live with it.
But as long as I, Roy Carson, have anything to do with VHeadline, we will defend Venezuela and its people's democratic right to sovereignty.
The Venezuelan people have spoken and have chosen Chavez as their President and since it was a legitimate expression of the Venezuelan people we have no problem with lending our support to what Chavez is trying to accomplish, as long as he is the democratic leader of the country. But that does not mean we have to blindly accept everything he says or does as the will of God Almighty.
Chavez himself is the first to admit that he has made errors and that he wantsVHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck was precisely right when he recently wrote that elements within the government are probably keeping Chavez so occupied that he doesn't have time to deal with details even though he is a workaholic.
to implement his 3Rs policy ... but we who have a voice to the world must work
to ensure that the 3Rs are as far removed as one can possibly get from the
current concept of RABID, RUTHLESS, REPRESSION that reigns in
many sectors of the Chavez administration today.
That is President Hugo Chavez Frias' most flawed failing!
Government ... any government ... is NOT an easy task, nor is it a task that can be imposed from the top down in anything other than a dictatorship. But Chavez' plight is made all the worse by the fact that while he is making every effort to govern by the democratic book against a plethora of misinformed and misguided accusations that he, personally, is a dictator ... there are so many traitors in his administration who are working against actively him or simply not doing the job they are properly supposed to do.
Venezuela is blighted with corruption, indolence and infiltration at various embassies and consulates around the world and it makes a mockery of everything that President Hugo Chavez Frias stands for.
While not wishing to plagorize the pages of Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Emperor's New Clothes' is it imperative that the little boy in us must shout out. The sychophants who surround the Presidency denigrating every attempt to get the President to wise-up about what is going on behind his back, are momentarily successful in persuading the leader that the garment he fictionally wears is of the finest gold, but the mirage will melt away as his immediate courtiers grow fat and lazy on the proceeds of Venezuela's largesse and drop by the wayside to enjoy a luxury lifestyle plundered from the sweat on the brows and over the backs of grassroots Venezuelans who have pledged their troth to the Messianic presence that Chavez Frias really is in Venezuelan life.
The list of the victims of Venezuela's current descent into political mayhem and whose names will be written into the pages of history begins with Hugo Rafael Chavez himself and ends with the millions of grassroots Venezuelans who have caught sight of the promised land which they have not yet reached. Like Moses, Chavez has had the best of intentions for his people ... the tragedy is that so many of those nearest to him have betrayed him so solidly even before the cock has crowed thrice.
VHeadline Venezuela is nevertheless pledged to support and defend Venezuela's democracy, constitutionality and the rule of law.
- Venezuela's democracy, constitutionality and the rule of law is in mortal danger not only from forces outside of the country and the ruder elements of Venezuela's rabid political opposition within, but more insidiously from darker forces in the administration itself.
Eventually, in democratic elections, the Venezuelan people may decide that Chavez Frias is no longer the leader that can fulfil their ambitions for national sovereignty and collective prosperity. Like Moses, President Hugo Chavez Frias may never reach the promised land ... maybe an assassin's bullet will reach him before he can fulfill his life's ambition ... or he will be overthrown in a peasant's revolt as 'el pueblo' increasingly becomes aware of the extent of the infiltration and corruption close to the top of the tree,
Personally, I hope that President Hugo Chavez Frias is allowed to complete his life's work and that the grassroots people of Venezuela will ensure a significant place for him in the history books alongside El Libertador Simon Bolivar.
Perhaps, though, it is time now for Chavez to come to terms with or act resolutely to purge the back-stabbers or, like Bolivar himself, to give up completely on Caracas and to withdraw gracefully to Santa Marta in frank admission that they have won over all sense of democracy, decency and public ethic.
In the meantime, the risks to the life and well-being of the mortal Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias grow greater by the minute and the hour and this is why my heart bleeds profusely for Venezuela...
Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com
You hit the nail on the head: like Lenin, Chavez is surrounded by people with venal agendas (as well as some true revolutionaries: look how Trotsky fared against Stalin, for example, in order to understand why the true revolutionaries are having such a tough time cutting through the bureaucrats).
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