4
of February: Day of the indignity of Venezuela
On
the 4th of February of 1992, there is nothing to celebrate in
Venezuela. The ill named day, called Day of the Dignity, it represents for the Venezuelan
lovers of freedom and democracy, the day of the Indignity, a day of
mourning for the families as well as a mortal wound to an uninterrupted
democracy of which Venezuela felt proud
On February 4th of 1992, the then Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías,
breaks the oath and he rises up in arms with a group of military and civil
partisans, violating the State of Right (Rule of law) as well as the oath to
defend the Homeland that he swore to defend at the cost of his life. This
frustrated attempt of a coup d´etat, leaves many deaths and
innocent wounded, of those which Hugo Chavez was never sorry for. Although he
was defeated by the loyal forces to the institution, judged and superseded at
the trial, he used the democratic road to arrive to power in 1998, when
an electoral process is made in the country, of which he comes out
triumphant, swearing then that he would respect the Constitution
and existing laws.
In these 6 years of Hugo Chavez in power, we can affirm without any doubt
that the totalitarian project of the supposed called revolution bolivariana in
Venezuela threatens the whole world. With the expressed and manifested
aan shown alliance Chavez-Castro as factors to destablize the world
order, there looms on the hemisphere a crisis in the social, political and
economic order. The extension of Castro's communism in Venezuela, supported by
the terrorist alliance of the radical left, Islamic religious fanatics' groups
and the support from some countries at international level: FARC, ELN, ETA, Bin
Laden, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, forces us to focus the look, to unite now
with more strenght than ever, to face humanity's new enemy that at this
moment has the power as president elect, in spite of the doubts of having
won the last Abrogative Referendum by all the indications of a massive fraud,
supported alone by a hurrying Jimmy Carter who was never an impartial
observer.
In Venezuela it has been a long time since democracy was lost. The economic
power that the high prices of the oil has given Chavez, and the
negotiation of the country under juicy agreements with other countries as a
political weapon to silence their wills, has allowed to maintain the
facade or image of democratic governmental system. What exists in fact is an
autocracy: All the powers have been kidnapped and in hands of a single
person: Hugo Chavez.
Under the current legal system, to differ, to criticize, to manifest an
opinion, has transformed in persecution , tortures, imprisonment,
disappearances, detentions without completing the minimum legal requirements,
to be transformed into an international leper. The Venezuelan democracy has
been lost.
The international press, as well as world organizations, they have manifested
their concern for the crisis that Venezuela lives, declaring that the Rule of
Law no longer exists. There has been a rupture in the democratic and
constitutional order, at the same time that all the human, civil and
constitutional rights have been violated. Chavez has violated all the laws,
which has provoked a "cultivation broth" that bringing us near
to a violent exit that would unchain into a civil war, with confrontation
between civilians and the military.
At the moment, the Interamerican Commission of Human rights of the OAS, is
packed with cases of Venezuelans that have appealed to that international
instance as the only means to achieve justice, in view of the persecutions and
violations to the human rights that have been subjected to. On the other hand,
the high increase registered in the petitions of political asylum by political
persecution in different countries of the world by Venezuelans that have
sought political asylum in search of protection, is a proof of it.
The recent approval of the Law over Social Responsibility in Radio and
Television, call also the Gag Law, on the part of the Legislative Assembly of
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a vulgar political instrument of
the revolution that in its beginnings, it looks for the control of the media,
its later use for the transmission of programs to diffuse the message that
alone the head of State wants to be spread, and, later on, the closing of the
means through a vague regulation. A previous censorship exists to the
programs, agreed by the censor's approach that is noneother that the same
government with very wide abilities
(Official statement of Press of the CIDH* http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/Spanish/2004/25.04.htm)
*International Committee of Human Rights
In these 6 years, the invasion of lands also begins on the part of the followers
of Chavez, many of which are not even producing. With the approval of the Law
of Lands that went into effect on November 14 of 2001, it searches to
normalize under the law, the illegality of this policy of their maximum
leader's followers. However, being the Venezuelan State the proprietor
legitimates of 12 million hectacres, in this case through the National
Institute of Lands, on Saturday January 8 of 2005, under the Zamorano
ordinance, Chavez begins a chain of confiscations with the Charcote Ranch. The
lands of that country property, a copy of exellence at world level, were
donated by Simón Bolívar to the Englishmen as a prize to their participation in
the Battle of Carabobo. For the politics of the revolution, the example of
productivity of The Charcote, it is considered "lazy lands"; as well
as the following confiscations and interventions that have followed.
The Assistance in Judicila Penal Matter Cuba-Venezuela Law, that the past
was officialized on December 22, it will allow judges, policemen and agents of
the Cuban security to act in Venezuelan territory with wide abilities to
investigate, to capture and to interrogate Cuban residents in Venezuela, as
well as to subject activists of the Venezuelan opposition whose actions attacks
can be considered to the security or the Cuban sovereignty. If a Venezuelan
criticizes or it differs of Castro's repressive politics, it can be required
for the Castro justice and imprisoned in the Cuban jails with Venezuelan
officials' collaboration. Same situation is presented for the Cubans
nationalized Venezuelans that decided to leave and to reside in Venezuela and
to transform it into its second homeland.
Existendo an increase of Cuban personnel's deserters through the programs of
msiones of Chavez in Venezuela, this agreement becomes in an arms of vengeance
without limit of Castro, who has manifested that he wants to see "
heads rolling to punish that real deserter or collaborator for a desertion
"
From the beginning of Hugo's government Chavez, the support to the Colombian
terrorist groups has been unquestionable: denouncements, reports, videos,
recordings, captures of the terrorist groups in Venezuelan territory carrying
weapons and uniforms of the Armed forces of Venezuela, it confirms us the
ideological likeness and the knowledge of the permanency of the elites of these
groups in the national territory as well as its camps with numerous irregular
members. To this we add the strong indications of the presumed collaboration
of the Chavez government's high officials in the business of the international
drug traffic, when lending collaboration to the groups of the FARC: arms
trafficking of weapons for drugs. The way of the drug is the one the way
to terrorism. For where the drug passes, it passes any biochemical
or dirty thing: weapons biochemical or dirty ones.
If to this we added him the recent scandal that Rodrigo Granda, the chancellor
of the FARC that was in the Interpol list, lived in Venezuela carrying documents
of identity, residence, participated in public acts. All this happened in a
country controlled by Chavez. It is impossible to believe that he ignored
their permanency in the country, and more when it was one of their most
important comrades.
The mask to the dictator Hugo Chavez has fallen. Venezuela is gambling its
destinity. The Venezuelans that fight for the justice and the freedom, fight
with the weapons of the truth. There is a towering risk that blood runs, but
the destination of a country:Venezuela is being gambled. We should unite to win
this fight for the future free of Venezuela and the people of the
Americas.
Patricia Andrade
Miami, Florida February 4th
2005