VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Constant threats made by the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, aimed at frightening his political opposition and to intimidate the electorate could trigger a massive backlash according to Governor Ramon Martinez of Sucre State on Venezuela's eastern Caribbean coastline.Martinez says he lives under constant threats from Chavez and his diehard supporters ... "it's quite impossible to live like that; it certainly takes cojones (balls)!"
The Governor's exasperation with Venezuela's leader comes after the President ordered the local airport to be seized by military last week. Chavez said the move was to protect nearby oil installations, but Martinez says the excuse simply does not wash: "Venezuela is experiencing a traumatic situation for which President Chavez bears full responsibility ... if he continues to show a total lack of respect for the Constitution, there'll be a civil war!"
Chavez claims his presidential powers allow him to order the militarization of airports "for national security reasons" but Martinez says he was simply showing military muscle, and that the seizure of the airport in Carupano was unnecessary, since there was NO threat to national security other than in Chavez' mind which, he says, amounts to the same thing!
"He (Chavez) totally ignored that such decisions are under the proper authority of the State Governor but, autocrat that he is, Chavez decided and what Chavez wants, he gets!"
When Martinez protested the military action, Chavez threatened to have him arrested "for subordination" and thrown into jail. He nevertheless accepted the risk to his physical well-being and put his protest formally in writing to the President: "It took cojones (balls) to do it, but I have the full support of my people here, and if I were to be put in jail, it would patently make clear for the people that Chavez has become a dictator."
Martinez used to be a Chavez supporter ... he had been a Movimiento al Socialismo-Movement towards Socialism (MAS) militant and was first elected to the Sucre State Governorship in July 30, 2000, with the full support of Chavez' then 5th Republic Movement (MVR). In 2002, he became somewhat disillusioned with the direction in which Chavez' government was going and, with other dissident Chavistas, he founded the social democratic PODEMOS (We can) party hoping to get Chavez back on the rails again.
In 2007, Martinez decided that Chavez was going too far when the President proposed a two-part Draft Amendment of Constitution which -- among other things -- would have increased Chavez' executive powers and allowed him to stand for indefinite re-election as President.
Now, Martinez says, Chavez sees his time as running out fast. He says the left wing in Venezuela's politics is so frustrated with Chavez that they call him the Bin Laden of Latin America ... "he thinks he's running a training school for Rambos!"
What Governor Martinez (and many others) see as Chavez' nervousness stems, he says, from the President's fear of losing power ... "60 per cent of the people living in Caracas are against Chavez, and this is reason enough for Chavez to threaten to bring army tanks out into the streets and to arrest anyone who dates to say different, democratically, to what he deigns!"
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