Venezuela Victim No More

Venezuela Victim No More

“Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.”

Evo Morales

By: Erreh Svaia

The 6 of December is a definite date for Latin America, another chance to sink that misleading project known as “Socialismo del Siglo XXI”, that project that was no more than populism, authoritarianism and militarism disguised as a way to solve the social inequity in America.

In November, Argentina made a decisive turn towards the center, the populist left wing, represented by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was clearly identified as one of the causes of Argentina's backwardness and economic downturn, it was a clear sign of maturity in the country, and of a society that stopped looking for guilty ones, and demanded to become responsible, a wakeup call to Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and especially to Venezuela, that as Bob Dylan said, the times they are a changing, is not, as left-wing defenders might claim, a coup de etat by the right wing, is a rethinking of geopolitics bringing America and diversity even closer, not separated by ideology, and a continuous battle that is bringing countries like Cuba, not to the right, but again to the center, where things can be solved for everyone benefit.

The so called Bolivarian Revolution promoted by Hugo Chavez and his us successor Nicolas Maduro has revealed itself as what it truly is, a military dictatorship in pure and simple Cuban style, a ruling class, a "patronage system", the suppression of human rights, the weakening of the middle class,  democracy and a drug trafficking financed state, imposed by force that has located Venezuela, one of the oil richest countries, as one of the most economically affected countries in the world, with an inflation that rates as the highest on Earth.

A time that started in America with the fall of the USSR, when a parasite state like Fidel's Cuba became desperate for financial backing, feeling the necessity of developing new ways of generate income, using Venezuela (Latin America's oil richest country ) and Brazil (Latin America's biggest economy) as the first steps to ideologically conquering America, using the social inequity prevailing in the continent and the populist rhetoric capable of creating a kidnapped state, the left wing put down the weapons in favor of "democracy".

In December 6, Venezuelan society has a chance to show their distaste for the Bolivarian Revolution and what it has brought to what was once one of the most prominent countries in the region, were democracy was kidnapped by a military government with the promise of better conditions and ending with a virulent continuation of the Cuban dictatorship, it won't be easy, but if a change is wanted, this is the time, as the once famous pink tide is weaker than ever, never fulfilling the promise of ending with inequity in Latin America.

The future for Venezuela includes a massive opposition taking over in the Assembly of Representatives in a democratic way, by people´s will, ending the so called Bolivarian Revolution that turned Venezuela into a victim, blaming everyone for whatever turned wrong in the country, kidnapped by ideology; A clear sign of new times in America, a time of leaving behind the victimization that brought populism, which isolated us, left us without a critic way of thinking, and therefore leaving us without a chance to improve, is time to left that “victim feel” behind, assume responsibility and restore Latin America as a bright hop to help the world overcome its growth crisis.

No, Evo, populism didn’t brought growth, the rise of China as a protagonist in the economy of the world was the reason, once China got into trouble, the truth was revealed and populism started to die.