Chavez Reborn
"I'm not standing here because I'm ambitious. I've never aspired to anything. My only aspiration has been to see my country stand on its feet. I can't remember a day in my life when I didn't work for Chavez."
Interim Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Thus spake the sanctimonious heir of Hugh Chavez's Venezuela, a country mismanaged and divided in loyalties by the controversial socialist charlatan whose death has left a vacuum that the modest Mr. Maduro insists he is the man to fill more than amply, to continue the trajectory that his mentor and leader initiated and was unable to fulfill thanks to the Grim Reaper's prior reservations.
Nicolas Maduro feels well prepared to take up the post of president of his country, having worked as a bus driver, which should surely be equal to having served in the military enabling the latter to engineer a take-over of government. Groomed through stints as foreign minister and later vice-president, he was Hugo Chavez's chosen successor.
Certainly not Henrique Capriles whose politics veers away from the purity of socialism toward practical restorative government ending the corrupt malfeasance and inadequacies of the Chavez years.
The rallies urging re-election of Mr. Maduro as president come complete with dances, one a traditional Venezuelan dance known as the 'buriquita', which seems an apt enough choice, since those Venezuelans who have voted for Maduro acted as donkeys in so doing.
The general air of celebration and joy somewhat comparable to the dances taking place in North Korea leading up to the anniversary celebration of the 101th birthday of the country's founder, the grandfather of the current Great Leader who has confounded the world by the burlesque bellowing of North Korea's intention to produce a nuclear winter for its neighbours.
"It's an order given to us for a man who honoured the poor, who gave this life" explained an Maduro supporter, an inspector with the state-run electrical company, that very same company which through government neglect has been dwindling its capacity to produce power, as its infrastructure slowly erodes into decay.
"The problem is that the oligarchy, the rancid bourgeoisie, hates it that a worker, a bus driver, is the virtual president of Venezuela."
Opposition leaders knew they were fighting a legend among the poor of their country whose votes brought Maduro to power. "We are in the presence of a brutal use of state resources to mobilize thousands of people from around the country to Caracas. What counts here is what happens Sunday when votes will put an end to this abuse of power", claimed the director of Mr. Capriles' campaign.
Well, that brutal use of state resources was resoundingly successful. Despite that Venezuela now boasts one of the world's highest homicide rates, strict currency controls have cut off production resulting in chronic food shortages. A poll taken before the election claimed almost 55% favoured the candidacy of Maduro, with 45% claiming they would vote for Mr. Capriles.
Now President Maduro has the opportunity given him by his divided country to further destroy its economy and mismanage the governance of a country which, despite its oil riches, has been slowly dissolving into dysfunctional desiccation.
Labels: Argentina, Controversy, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Monday, April 15, 2013
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